The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently published a comprehensive paper that discusses the available international and national regulatory strategies for combatting food fraud.

The European Commission has published the findings of its first control plan involving authenticity of herbs and spices.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new website on economically motivated adulteration.

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

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.

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

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.

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.