Thousands of kilo bags of pirate sugar are being found in the nation�s grocery stores; bags that the forgers worked hard on designing to closely resemble the popular Badatz Sugat brand that most shoppers would not detect the forgery.

Shoppers are warned to take a good look, realizing the colors, fonts and text match with the one exception, the company name �Sugat� is replaced by �Sugar�, replacing the �taf� with a �resh�.

It appears the fraudulent sugar is only found in grocery stores, unable to penetrate into supermarkets where buyers usually only make deals with bonafied wholesalers and manufacturers.

(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)