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Quote:Trading standards officers are demanding tighter regulations for websites which sell food products after they found three quarters of food for sale on eBay fails relevant hygiene and packaging laws.

Investigators bought 89 products, 65 of which were unfit for sale in a British supermarket (73 per cent). Faulty labelling was the main problem of 51 products, while 12 failed to meet ingredient laws...

Dried meat products were incorrectly labelled and packaged. A "home made" cake arrived mouldy...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/27/...ood_dodgy/