Food fraud is one of the most urgent and evolving food industry issues including the focus on compliance with standards as well as general protection of a company. This workshop will move quickly through an introduction to the core concepts to an in-depth presentation of the compliance requirements then to the best practices and recommended implementation method. The structured workshop will be including broad education but combined with training on specific tasks such as organizing incident data, the range of vulnerability assessments from initial screening to details assessment, development of the prevention strategy, and then best practices for implementation and update.
There are several key recent scholarly publications that provide the foundation for the workshop. Broadly, this workshop is based on the Food Fraud Implementation Method (FFIM) that was published in 2019 in Current Options in Food Science Journal. The article scope includes very simple and direct objective of “Overview and Requirements to Address “How to Start?” and “How Much is Enough?” The basic overall scope and definition of process steps were in “implementing the strategy” published in Current Opinion in Food Science and “Food Fraud Prevention Implementation Steps” published in CHIMIA Journal.