By • August 23, 2022 Occasionally, incidents make you scratch your head when considering, “Is it food fraud?” Does it matter what you call it? If you’re the food fraud prevention manager, do you need to take action? During one of my regular calls with a colleague, Jason Bashura, a question arose: “Is […]
“Is it Food Fraud or Not?” Illegal Drugs Smuggled in Cans of Soup and Bags of Cookies Read More »
By • August 16, 2022 The food fraud term has solidified itself in the food industry lexicon. The food fraud term is steadily growing in publications, with massive growth since 2012. Other terms that are growing at a lower rate are: food adulteration, food authenticity, food integrity, and food protection. I recently found
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By • August 9, 2022 Possibly due to the rapidly changing and growing food fraud vulnerability from COVID and now Ukraine-Russia related inflation, there are more questions coming up about what is ‘enough’ for a Food Fraud Prevention Strategy. Our ‘Organic Product Fraud Gap Analysis in 20 Questions’ is a great place to
Organic Product Fraud – Gap Analysis in 20 Questions Read More »
By • August 1, 2022 This criminology blog series was inspired by questions that have come up recently, including: ‘Has COVID led to more food fraud?’ and ‘What is the impact of inflation on food fraud?’ While there is no statistically significant data yet, can you afford not to act to prevent food
Criminology Blog Series – Introduction to Crime Prevention (not Crime ‘Catching’) Read More »
By • July 26, 2022 Purchasing managers don’t wake up in the morning and think about how to make life more difficult for food safety managers (believe it or not!) In this post we will review food safety from a procurement perspective, and I’ve included a link to my video presentation on this
PRESENTATION – Food Safety Summit: Food Safety as a Supply Chain Management Problem Read More »
By • July 19, 2022 If you don’t understand the type of question you’re answering, you might use the wrong tool. For example, detecting species swapping is very different than preventing country of origin labeling fraud. Known known? Known unknown? Unknown unknown? The classification makes a difference. My good friend and frequent collaborator
Known Knowns? Unknown Unknowns? Know Your Problem Type to Frame Your Response Read More »
By • July 12, 2022 Our “International Survey of Food Fraud and Related Terminology” journal article was one of the top 10 – not just top ten percent – most-downloaded articles for the Journal of Food Science. This is especially rewarding since governments, industry, and associations have used the article. Reference: Spink, John,
ANNOUNCEMENT – Food Fraud Terminology Survey Research a Top 10 Most-Downloaded Article Read More »
By • July 5, 2022 Food crimes – including food fraud and food defense – are non-traditional food safety problems. I presented on food fraud prevention for this lecture series, but also watched every minute of the other presentations from this very experienced group. Access the lecture series: Food Crime Prevention Masterclass (2021).
ANNOUNCEMENT – Food Crime Prevention Lecture Series by the SSAFE Organization Read More »
