Food Fighters

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We’ve never been more obsessed with what we eat – but do we really know the secrets of what we’re putting in our mouths? We’re sold an image of food as nurturing and nutritious but, in fact, our food has never been more industrial, commercial and open to abuse. From factory to fork, the food chain presents opportunities for massive fraud, contamination and dangerous, sometimes life threatening, lapses of hygiene. Thankfully there’s an army of inspectors working behind the scenes to make sure that the food we eat is safe. Food Fighters is a fast moving, jaw-dropping, occasionally stomach-churning series following the work of the people policing the nation’s food chain. Profiling their work in a tightly-paced intercut observational documentary style, the series features Britain’s border agencies stopping illegal and dangerous food entering the country, Environmental Health Officers cracking down on rat and cockroach infested premises and the painstaking laboratory tests that prevent potentially carcinogenic peanuts or algae infected mussels from entering the food chain.

A True North Productions production for BBC