⁍ Reuters revealed this week a frozen fruit scam spanning from China to Chile and then on to consumers in Canada.

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⁍ Hundreds of tons of fruit were repackaged and rebranded by Frutti di Bosco as premium Chilean-grown organics.

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⁍ The agency calculated that at least $12 million worth of mislabeled raspberries were sent to Canada between 2014 and 2016.

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– Consumers in Canada may have been getting cheated out of millions of dollars’ worth of raspberries. A year-long investigation by Reuters found that hundreds of tons of low-cost frozen berries from China were shipped to a packing plant in central Chile, where they were repackaged and rebranded as premium Chilean-grown organics. They were then shipped to Canadian cities including Vancouver and Montreal, according to documents prepared by Chilean Customs as part of its investigation. The agency calculated that at least $12 million worth of mislabeled raspberries were sent to Canada between 2014 and 2016. The insightful story drew wide reaction, including a strong response in Chile, with lawmakers calling for a special legislative session to understand how the fraud had skirted international regulators and why it was kept quiet. Industry groups called for tough sanctions, and Chilean Customs and Foreign Ministries were forced to respond. In Canada, their customs agency told Reuters it was investigating the matter on the back of the news agency’s reporting.