Britain is to get a Food Crime Unit to fight the trade in fraudulent foods.
The special force is a response to last year's horsemeat scandal, which saw contaminated beef products reaching supermarket shelves across Europe.
The FCU is the major recommendation in a report commissioned from food security expert Chris Elliott.
The Queen's University Belfast professor has made a number of suggestions to ensure consumers have absolute confidence when buying food.
These include:
better intelligence gathering and sharing of information to make it difficult for criminals to operate;
new, unannounced audit checks by the food industry to protect businesses and their customers;
the development of a whistleblowing system that would better facilitate the reporting of food crime;
improved laboratory testing capacity, with a standardised approach for the testing of a food's authenticity; and
the encouragement of a culture within the food industry that questions the source of its supply chain.
Prof Elliott said British consumers had one of the safest food systems in the world, but he believed his suggestions would take the situation to a new level.
"I believe the creation of the national food crime prevention framework will ensure measures are put in place to further help protect consumers from any food fraud incidents in the future," he added.
Government minsters said all his ideas would be accepted.
Environment Secretary, Elizabeth Truss, told BBC News: "We have started implementing some of the recommendations of his report, in terms of information sharing, food companies being more transparent with each other, and consumers looking for shorter supply chains. For example, there has been a 10% rise in the sale of British Beef in supermarkets."
The new unit will comprise a specialist team within the Food Standards Agency.