Egg fraud?
In 2004, the UK noticed a problem with their egg industry: as the Guardian summarizes, “there were vastly more British free-range and organic eggs being sold in shops than could ever possibly be laid in UK farms.” Authorities suspected that an egg farmer named Keith Owen was behind this and undertook an investigation. It’s impossible to tell where an egg comes from by looking at it with the naked eye, but technology can help; per the Guardian, “when inspectors checked a selection of Owen’s allegedly free-range eggs using ultraviolet light, the shells bore telltale wire marks – a sure sign that they had been laid not on a bed of straw or even Astroturf, as farming regulations stipulate, but in a metal cage.” Owen allegedly sold 100 million fake free-range eggs and was sent to prison for three years for the shell game.