Food safety. In Europe, the horsemeat
scandal in 2013 heightened the
concerns over food supply chain security.
While the use of cheaper substitutes
to produce food products is unethical,
some suppliers would even use
harmful or banned substances to produce
food products to increase profits.
As U.S. agribusinesses and food manufacturers
import more food products
from China, public concerns arose
in 2012 after a series of reports about
unsafe food products made in China,
for example: melamine adulteration in
pet food, hydrolyzed leather protein in
milk, and chromium in pill capsules.2