Author name: John W. Spink, PhD

Dr. John Spink is Director of the Food Fraud Prevention Think Tank, as well as Lead Instructor of the Food Fraud Prevention Academy, which provides free online training. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management (SCM) in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University (MSU). His food fraud prevention research focus is on policy and strategy to understand and prevent these supply chain disruptions and to implement procurement best practices. He is widely published in leading academic journals and has helped lead national and global regulatory and standards activity.More recently, his teaching and research have expanded from only food fraud prevention to now include integrated supply chain management and, more broadly, supply chain product fraud and counterfeiting.Dr. Spink is the author of the first textbook on the topic with the 2019 publication “Food Fraud Prevention – Development, Management, and Implementation."

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EXCERPT – Enabling the Shift to Prevention with Quality Control Metrics

‘Enabling the shift to prevention’ is challenging because, usually, there have been years of measuring success by the number of arrests, length of incarceration, or pounds of products seized. Shifting from reaction to prevention requires a new set of proactive success metrics. When creating a new food fraud

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NEW PUBLICATION – Routine Activities Theory and Food Fraud Victimization – Update

Our recent consumer food fraud victimization publication has a renewed importance due to the increase in e-commerce and online shopping focus. COVID-19 drove consumers to unprecedented online purchases and e-commerce. There are ways that food companies can position their products to build consumer confidence and reduce the consumer’s

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ANNOUNCEMENT – Food Fraud Prevention MOOC at the Food Safety Summit (May 9, 2022)

We are offering our first live, in-person Food Fraud Prevention MOOC program for this year’s Food Safety Summit. It will be held Monday, May 9, 2022, during the pre-conference workshop in Rosemont, Illinois. My co-instructor will be Dr. Roy Fenoff from The Citadel. Food Fraud Prevention Workshop at

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Codex and Food Fraud: Public Comments for their Electronic Working Group, Fourth Draft

Attached you will find our response to the US Codex Delegation request for public comments to the Codex Alimentarius Electronic Work Group on Food Fraud. The most recent draft discussion paper has a noticeable shift to core food fraud concepts and prevention. To review our public comments, see:

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