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Shoppers who are checking out retailer websites and searching the internet for popular items should be aware of scammers looking to do some shopping of their own.

A total of 17 products, most of them own-brands sold in UK and German retailers, are likely to contain Chinese tomatoes - testing commissioned by the BBC World Service shows.

Conor McGregor proclaimed to his millions of social media followers on Tuesday, while retailers pulled products linked to him from shelves, murals of him were erased and brands announced they had cut ties.

Eight out of 10 people said they planned to do some sort of shopping during that stretch, when retailers try to jumpstart holiday sales with deals, the survey found.

On Thursday, California’s agriculture department reached out to the owner of Raw Farm LLC, Mark McAfee, and instructed him to suspend all sales to retailers.