Articles Tagged with ''food fraud''

Ten Years Later: Defining Food Fraud and Envisioning the Future

A look at how far we’ve come and where we’ve yet to go

August 12, 2021

Ten years after we first defined food fraud in an academic sense, there has been a lot of progress, but we still have a long way to go. Learn how management systems are maturing and shifting resource allocations and what this means for the future.

Food Safety Summit: Food Fraud Prevention – Introduction, Implementation, and Management

Liz Parker

October 26, 2020

The Food Safety Summit continued on Wednesday, October 21, with a session entitled “Food Fraud Prevention – Introduction, Implementation, and Management.”

FoodChain ID licenses Battelle prediction tool to identify and prevent food fraud risks

October 20, 2020

FoodChain ID has licensed technology from Battelle to fight food fraud using EMAlert, a food fraud prediction tool using artificial intelligence to identify potential hazards in the global food supply chain.

Supply chains

Food fraud is not only an economic drain but also a supply chain safety concern

Sharon Spielman

July 24, 2020

Guarding against food fraud in the supply chain can be a costly, resource-intensive effort—but the potential effects of not catching it can be disastrous.

Preventing food fraud and adulteration

Earl Arnold

July 17, 2020

Food fraud is not a new trend. In fact, there were laws written nearly 2,000 years ago in Rome against adulterating wine.

2020 Food Safety Summit: Food fraud prevention

John W. Spink Ph.D.

February 12, 2020

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.

Supply Chain

Fighting food fraud with the right tools

Analytical and software tools make it easier to manage suppliers and weed out fraudulent ones

Wayne Labs

October 5, 2018

Severin Weiss, CEO of SpecPage and an expert in integrated software process solutions for recipe-based food and beverage processors, thinks PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) are two sets of tools that can help food processors avoid using fraudulent ingredients from less-than-scrupulous suppliers.

Organic Trade Association kicks off pilot project to deter organic fraud

The pilot is designed to be an intensive-focused exercise in which participants will "test drive" the fraud prevention and detection strategies developed by the GOSCI Task Force.

June 4, 2018

The Organic Trade Association (OTA), Washington, D.C., kicked off of a groundbreaking pilot project to prevent and detect fraud in the global organic system.

Food fraud

Combating the growth of fake food

Food is now the fourth most valuable counterfeit market, and foods such as olive oil, honey, fish, vinegar, vanilla and coffee top the list.

Maria Ferrante

November 29, 2017

As brand manufacturers continue to source from an ever-growing list of ingredients and suppliers, food is now the fourth most valuable counterfeit market, according to the 2016 Brand Protection and Product Traceability Market Research Report.

New technique detects impurities in ground beef within minutes

Food science students were able to say with 80% accuracy which animal parts were used and in what concentration.

November 28, 2017

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, have found a better way to identify unwanted animal products in ground beef.

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