Fraud and misrepresentation in retail forest products exceeds U.S. forensic wood science capacity.

Fraud and misrepresentation in forest products supply chains is often associated with illegal logging, but the extent of fraud in the U.S. forest products market, and the availability of forensic expertise to detect it, is unknown. We used forensic wood anatomy to test 183 specimens from 73 consumer...

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Main Authors: Alex C Wiedenhoeft, John Simeone, Amy Smith, Meaghan Parker-Forney, Richard Soares, Akiva Fishman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219917