Archives 2025 (2)March 18 Review of ISO Food Fraud Terms & Definitions: Proposed Adapted Definition & Industry InsightsMarch 8 FLASHBACK: Does Traceability Really Help Fight Fraudsters?2024 (21)July 24 REVIEW – IFS Product and Food Defense GuidelineJuly 2 REVIEW – WTO Report on Illicit Trade in Food and Food Fraud – DefinitionsJune 25 NEW EVENT REMINDER: Live, Scheduled, Online MoocLive “Webinar D” – Enterprise Risk Management (ERM/COSO) MOOC with the Food Fraud Implementation Method (FFIM)June 21 Reported ‘Counterfeit Titanium’ in Boeing Aircraft: Application to Food FraudJune 18 REVIEW – WTO Webinar Summary from ‘Illicit Trade in Food and Food Fraud’ – 2022 and 2023June 11 FLASHBACK: Publication – Selection of Strategic Authentication and Tracing Programs – Now for Machine Learning and Artificial IntelligenceApril 23 Codex and Food Fraud: Public Comments for the Electronic Working Group, Sixth DraftApril 16 Conference Presentation Schedule: Food Safety Summit, MSU Law School, IAFP, and MoreApril 11 Review of The GFSI Food Fraud Prevention Compliance Development & Requirements: Part 3 – The Next Steps and Path ForwardApril 8 Review of The GFSI Food Fraud Prevention Compliance Development & Requirements: Part 2 – The Shift to Prevention and VACCPApril 7 Review of The GFSI Food Fraud Prevention Compliance Development & Requirements: Part 1 – Creation of the GFSI Food Fraud Think TankApril 2 NEW EVENT-REMINDER: Live, Scheduled, Online MoocLive “Webinar C” – Advanced Criminology and Food Defense Threat Audit Guide CoursesMarch 19 PRESENTATION – Food Fraud Network of Norway – Setting Priorities to Reduce the Fraud OpportunityMarch 13 PRESENTATION – Counterfeit Medicines & Street Drugs, for the Michigan State Police, Drug Recognition Expert ProgramMarch 5 INVITATION – IAFP Food Fraud Professional Development Group Monthly Web MeetingsMarch 1 NEW EVENT: Live, Scheduled, Online MoocLive “Webinar B” – Food Fraud Supply Chain Management/ Procurement and Food Fraud Audit Guide CoursesFebruary 26 Scope and Resources for an Effective and Efficient Food Fraud-Related Audit/ Inspection/ Investigation/ ProsecutionFebruary 20 Government Activity Is Most Efficient When Focused on Prevention … Including for Food FraudFebruary 13 Food Fraud Prevention in the US Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the Food, Drug & Cosmetics Act (FDCA)February 6 Reliance on Incomplete or Uncertain Data Sets is an Achilles Heel of Enhanced Traceability, Artificial Intelligence and Machine LearningJanuary 31 ANNOUNCEMENT – Join Us for the 3rd Food Fraud Prevention Certification Workshop at the Food Safety Summit2023 (45)December 19 Food Fraud Gap Analysis – Spend 2023 Budget to Jumpstart 2024 PreventionDecember 12 Generative Artificial Intelligence and Chatbots (Some Insight, and Two “Articles” That Don’t Exist)November 28 UPCOMING PRESENTATION – WTO Annual Agriculture Symposium Presentation: “Illicit Trade in Food and Food Fraud”November 14 PRESENTATION – China International Food Safety and Quality Conference (CIFSQ) – Food FraudNovember 7 FLASHBACK – So, How Big Is the Food Fraud Problem? UNKNOWABLE!October 24 ANNOUNCEMENT – Primer on Food Fraud Suspicious Activity Report (FFSAR) ToolOctober 20 Food Fraud Training – Remember to Use Your 2023 Budget Now, or Allocate for 2024October 10 Prevention Strategy Horizon Scanning and Early Warning System (EWS)September 19 NEW EVENT: Live, Scheduled, Online MOOC Webinar – Food Fraud Overview and VACCP CoursesSeptember 10 New Report – Enterprise Risk Management: Implementation and Best Practices for Food Fraud Prevention with a SurveySeptember 6 Food Fraud-Related Certification for Packages and Packaging CompaniesSeptember 1 ANNOUNCEMENT – New Professional Education for Food Industry Suppliers: Packaging, Transportation and Services – October 24-25, 2023August 22 FLASHBACK: Publication – The Economics of a Food Fraud Incident, with Case StudiesAugust 15 Excerpt – The GFSI Food Fraud 10-Year Review: Creation of VACCPAugust 8 NEW PUBLICATION – The GFSI Food Fraud Prevention Compliance Development & Requirements: A Ten-Year ReviewAugust 1 EU Honey Fraud Report: Part 1 – Supply Chain Mapping with Hot Spot AnalysisJuly 25 Excerpt – Data Analytics: Begin with the ‘Known Knowns’ from Incident Databases and Historical DataJuly 18 Excerpt – Data Analytics: The Value of Predictive Models and Enhanced TraceabilityJuly 11 INVITATION – IAFP Food Fraud Professional Development Group Survey and Meeting, 2023July 4 Review: Food Fraud Resources Including Primers and Reports – Share WidelyJune 27 USAID Halts Humanitarian Food Aid to Ethiopia Due to Food FraudJune 20 Primer on HACCP, TACCP, & VACCP (Three Separate Assessments)June 13 Conference Presentation Schedule: BRC/BRCGS (this Thursday), IAFP, and AOACJune 6 Food Fraud Professional Education: In-Person Seminars and Workshops for Completing Your Annual Compliance RequirementsMay 30 Food Safety Summit Review: Adapt Resources for Small, Very Small, and Start-up CompaniesMay 23 ANNOUNCEMENT – New Supply Chain Management & Procurement Free Online CourseMay 16 Review of our Food Safety Summit Session on Ranking and Evaluating SuppliersMay 9 Food Fraud Prevention Strategy Annual Review – Start with a Food Fraud Gap AnalysisMay 2 Types of Management System Reviews: Audits, Inspections, Investigations, and ProsecutionsApril 25 ANNOUNCEMENT – New Professional Education Course Dates (Live, In-Person) – February 26-March 1, 2024April 18 Food Fraud (and GFSI) Maturing Along the Hype Cycle and to the ‘Plateau of Productivity’April 11 Preliminary Results – Food Fraud Annual Update Survey: Some Simple Adjustments and a Crucial RevelationApril 4 ANNOUNCEMENT – New Advanced Criminology Free Online CourseMarch 28 REVIEW – Food Fraud Joint Nordic Assessment Report and WorkshopsMarch 21 REVIEW – UK DEFRA Review of Food Fraud Drivers and Mitigation Tools (Part 1 – Report Overview)March 14 Criminology Blog Series – Narrow the Focus and Precisely Define the ProblemMarch 7 TAKE THE SURVEY: Update 2023 – Food Fraud Annual Update Compliance ConfidenceFebruary 28 Announcement – UPDATED Food Fraud Prevention MOOC Series & Tenth AnniversaryFebruary 21 FDA Honey Fraud Report from Dec-2022 : Review of the Country-Level Test Results (Part 2)February 14 REVIEW – Update of FDA’s ‘Economically Motivated Adulteration (Food Fraud)’ WebpageFebruary 7 REVIEW – Food Fraud in the WTO Report on Trade and Food StandardsJanuary 31 Codex and Food Fraud: Public Comments for Their Electronic Working Group, Fifth DraftJanuary 24 ANNOUNCEMENT – Publication of the Food Fraud Prevention White Paper (Dr. Ehrenstorfer Series/ LGC)January 17 EFFoST Dublin 2022: The Evolution of Food Fraud Vulnerabilities: Beyond Melamine to InfinityJanuary 10 EXCERPT – Fire Prevention and Ben Franklin (Why Food Fraud Prevention Should be Boring)2022 (39)December 22 FDA Honey Fraud Report from Dec-2022: Summary of Key Insights and Takeaway Points (Part 1)December 13 Our Definition Cited in the WHO’s New Global Food Safety Strategy for 2022-2030December 6 ANNOUNCEMENT – New Food Fraud Section in the PTNPA Handbook for Safe Processing of NutsNovember 29 Deceptive and Non-Deceptive Counterfeit Products – A Key Distinction When Selecting CountermeasuresNovember 22 INCIDENT REVIEW and RESPONSE– Buffalo Milk Diluted by a Tanker with a Double BottomNovember 15 The Danger of Simulations and the Case of Petrus Lambertini vs. Chateau PetrusNovember 8 NEW PUBLICATION – The Current State of Food Fraud Prevention: ‘How to Start?’ and ‘How Much is Enough?’November 1 New EU Limits on Antioxidants in Tuna to Combat Food Fraud (and Confuse Journalists)October 25 Criminology Blog Series – Identifying the ProblemOctober 18 NEW PUBLICATION – Food Supply Chain Management: A Year in ReviewOctober 11 PRESENTATION – Join us at EFFoST on November 8 for The Evolutions of Food Fraud VulnerabilitiesSeptember 13 “Food Supply Chains are Susceptible to Fraud and Adulteration ‘More Than Ever’”August 30 EXCERPT – The Types of Business Fraud (and Why Product Fraud is a Challenge)August 23 “Is it Food Fraud or Not?” Illegal Drugs Smuggled in Cans of Soup and Bags of CookiesAugust 16 The Food Fraud Term is Solidified in the Food Industry LexiconAugust 9 Organic Product Fraud – Gap Analysis in 20 QuestionsAugust 1 Criminology Blog Series – Introduction to Crime Prevention (not Crime ‘Catching’)July 26 PRESENTATION – Food Safety Summit: Food Safety as a Supply Chain Management ProblemJuly 19 Known Knowns? Unknown Unknowns? Know Your Problem Type to Frame Your ResponseJuly 12 ANNOUNCEMENT – Food Fraud Terminology Survey Research a Top 10 Most-Downloaded ArticleJuly 5 ANNOUNCEMENT – Food Crime Prevention Lecture Series by the SSAFE OrganizationJune 21 PRESENTATION -Cybersecurity and the Role of the Food Safety ManagerJune 14 EXCERPT – Why Wasn’t Food Fraud Prevention Addressed Years Ago?June 7 EXCERPT – Enabling the Shift to Prevention with Quality Control MetricsMay 31 NEW PUBLICATION – Routine Activities Theory and Food Fraud Victimization – UpdateMay 27 Request for Comments – from the UK National Food Crime UnitApril 26 INVITATION –IAFP Food Fraud Professional Development Group Survey and MeetingApril 19 ANNOUNCEMENT – Food Fraud Prevention MOOC at the Food Safety Summit (May 9, 2022)April 12 Codex and Food Fraud: Public Comments for their Electronic Working Group, Fourth DraftApril 5 Request for Comments: Section Draft for ISO 28000 Supply Chain Security for Cybersecurity and Food Fraud PreventionMarch 29 Book Review and Application to Ukraine/Russia: “Taste of War” by Collingham, 2012March 22 GFSI Food Fraud Requirement Update for Year FiveMarch 15 Ukraine/Russia and Your Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessment – Are You Done?March 8 Supply Chain Disruption Deja Vu – Food Fraud Incidents, COVID, and now Ukraine/ RussiaMarch 1 ANNOUNCEMENT – March 3 Presentation for World Trade Organization (WTO) on Prevention Counterfeit Food and BeveragesFebruary 22 Library of Food Fraud Insight ReportsFebruary 15 New “Food Fraud 20 Questions” Survey: Food Document Fraud – Concerns and CountermeasuresJanuary 11 Review of INTERPOL / EUROPOL Operation OPSON IX Final Report (global food fraud investigations)January 4 REVIEW: “Ten Years Later – Defining Food Fraud and Envisioning the Future”2021 (29)December 7 Request for Comments: Section Draft of ISO 22000 Food Safety Management and CybersecurityNovember 30 Food Fraud Prevention Textbook – Now Over 2.4 Million Chapters Downloaded!November 23 REVIEW – UK Parliament Report on Food Fraud (POSTNOTE No. 624, Food Fraud)November 16 Food Standards Scotland and UK FSA Conference Summary: “Food Authenticity and Crime”November 9 TAKE THE SURVEY – Update 2021 – Food Fraud Annual Update Compliance ConfidenceNovember 2 FDA Public Meeting on Food E-Commerce (Part 7): A Country-Level Vulnerability Assessment ExampleOctober 26 EXCERPT – Food Fraud Prevention Textbook – Fraudsters and Counterfeiters as CompetitorsOctober 19 FDA Public Meeting on Food E-Commerce (Part 6): Definitions for “Produce and Meal Kit Subscription Services, Ghost Kitchens, Dark Stores.”October 12 FDA Public Meeting on Food E-Commerce (Part 5): Supply Chain Mapping and Hot Spot AnalysisOctober 5 FDA Public Meeting on Food E-Commerce (Part 4): Video Lecture on Cybersecurity and the Food Safety ManagerSeptember 28 FDA Public Meeting on Food E-Commerce (Part 3): Definitions of E-commerce and CybersecuritySeptember 21 FDA Public Meeting on Food E-Commerce (Part 2) – Food E-Commerce Vulnerabilities (Book Excerpt)September 14 ANNOUNCEMENT – New Food Fraud & Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) MOOCSeptember 7 FDA Public Meeting on Food E-Commerce – Review and Registration LinkAugust 31 Pest Control in the GFSI Procurement and Purchasing RequirementsAugust 24 GFSI Compliance vs. a Food Safety Standard (BRC, SQF, FSSC, IFS, GRMS, and others)August 17 EXCERPT – Food Fraud Prevention Textbook – Early Warning SystemsAugust 10 ANNOUNCEMENT – Primer on Organic Product Fraud Audit GuideAugust 3 ANNOUNCEMENT – USDA National Organic Program, Organic Product Fraud Prevention, Free Online TrainingJuly 27 Primer for Consumer Product Fraud Prevention – “5 Word Survey”July 20 SURVEY – Invitation to Participate in the IAFP Food Fraud Professional Development Group Interest SurveyJuly 9 Review of the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community – Food ConcernsJune 29 New Food Fraud Episode – Hear My Comments on The Global Safety Podcast, June 29, 2021May 20 ANNOUNCEMENT – May 26 Presentation for US Patent and Trademark Office on Preventing Counterfeit Food and BeveragesMay 7 UPDATE – Review and Comments on the new Codex Food Fraud Discussion PaperApril 19 Ten Year Review: Challenges of IP Enforcement for Food and Ag ProductsMarch 16 NEW PUBLICATION: Food Fraud Victimization of Online ConsumersFebruary 26 Review: Product Fraud Criminology Theories and Food Fraud Prevention ResourcesJanuary 19 Scholarly Articles You May Have Missed – Most Are Free to Download2020 (1)June 30 NEW COURSE – Developing an Organic Fraud Prevention Plan MOOC, Co-Developed with the Organic Trade Association2019 (2)July 8 TAKE THE SURVEY – Food Fraud Annual Update Compliance ConfidenceJune 26 Request for Comments on the GFSI Benchmarking Requirement Version 8 Draft Including Food Fraud2018 (6)December 6 Presentation – Food Fraud Prevention Research Strategy at the National Academy of SciencesSeptember 27 Review – Codex and Food Fraud: Public Comments and for Electronic Working Group Third DraftSeptember 24 FOR COMMENT – Glossary of Food Fraud-Related Terms (09/2018) = now over 800 entries, Please ParticipateMay 17 Review of GFSI Food Fraud Technical Document, May 2018March 1 Food Fraud Tabletop Exercise: “Something’s Fishy” – Grant Deliverable for FDA’s Innovative Food Defense Program (IFDP)January 12 Report – A Review of ISO Standards Terminology Regarding Product Integrity and Authenticity2017 (5)November 6 September 16 Report – Applying Enterprise Risk Management to Food Fraud Prevention, with a Case Study Example of a Food Fraud Management SystemAugust 2 Food Fraud Prevention Compliance – What is Really Required? (Announcement of the New Food Fraud Audit Guide MOOC)May 5 Review – CODEX CCFICS23 Meeting Summary – Action to Define Food Fraud and Related TermsMarch 28 Publication – The Role of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in Food Fraud Prevention – with Webinar Link2016 (7)December 23 Review – New FSSC 22000 Version 4 Regarding Food Fraud and Food DefenseDecember 7 FSMA Qualified Individual Training Video Regarding Food Fraud – Free LinkNovember 10 “Food Fraud 20 Questions”: Document Fraud – Concerns and CountermeasuresJune 22 Review – Final Rule for FSMA Intentional Adulteration (Food Defense) Regarding Food Fraud and EMAApril 17 Publication – Book on Food Safety in China: Past, Present, and Future – Chapter on Food Fraud [published in China in Chinese]February 11 Request for Comments on the GFSI Guidance Document Issue 7 including Food Fraud (due 2/19/2016)January 28 Review: Final Rules for FSMA ‘Third-Party Certification,’ ‘Foreign Supplier Verification,’ and ‘Produce Rule’ Regarding Food Fraud and EMA2015 (3)October 8 Review: Final Rule for FSMA Preventative Controls Regarding Food Fraud and EMA – See 15-page Preliminary ReportJuly 31 ANNOUNCEMENT – Spink Awarded the 2015-2016 Foreign Expert Fellowship for the Chinese National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) – to spend August in ChinaFebruary 13 Publication – Selection of Strategic Authentication and Tracing Programs2014 (7)September 5 Publication – Annual Survey Study of Product Counterfeiting by Michigan Residents Utilizing the MSU State of the State Survey: Implications for Food FraudAugust 24 Presentation: Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessment Foundation at the GFSI China Focus Day, Beijing & Korean Society for Food Science and Technology, Gwangju KoreaJune 27 Update: European Parliament Activity – Food Fraud DefinedMay 29 Future Innovations in Food Fraud Prevention? – Review of the McKinsey Disruptive Technologies Report for 2013 to 2025May 8 GFSI Direction on Food Fraud and Vulnerability Assessment (VACCP)January 19 CRS Report on Food Fraud and Economically Motivated Adulteration of FoodJanuary 11 Review: GAO Report on FDA and Economically Motivated Adulteration2013 (2)September 25 Reflections on Food Fraud Prevention in Russia – Trip SummaryMarch 5 The Impact of the Horse Meat Scandal on the Food Industry
