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Leggo's, Coles and Aldi selling Chinese tomatoes as 'Australian' and 'Italian' in products, forensic testing finds (www.abc.net.au)
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[โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago* (8 children)

They covered it (briefly) in the program. They analyze for various metals and elements which provides a 'fingerprint' of the source of the goods.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Yes, the general concept is explained, but not the raw data, or how they come to their "98% certainty" figure.

    There are a number of factors that can effect the trace element and isotopes ratios in a crop, and they have made no effort to share what factors they have controlled for.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

    It's a documentary, not a scientific paper. Why would they give you source data?

    I'd trust the scientist with years of expertise over the denials of every company.

    The parallels are eerily similar with the sunscreen fiasco, where all the companies caught with vastly lower SPF factors than they claimed, all denied it, and claimed the Choice testing was wrong or invalid. Then, one by one, they fessed up, and blamed it on suppliers, their own testing and everyone else except themselves.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Guy sounds like an anti vaxer/ home scientist...where's the source data. I want to do my own analysis of it to find the truth they are hiding.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Nope, just an engineer who has seen similar methods fail hilariously when the trying to extrapolate from a limited datasets.

    When the only data supplied is opaque guarantees from a private company that profits from enticing more interest in their services, they need to state clearly how they came to make those guarantees.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago

    Most articles won't provide a decent level of sources. Then again most articles (journalism) are shit.

    I will say decent journalists will answer emails. Depends on volume of articles written and if its a well worded discussion.

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