By • June 21, 2022 How is a food safety manager addressing cybersecurity like going to your doctor? In both cases, you are accountable for setting the appointment and clearly defining your concerns. Your primary care doctor will conduct the initial assessment and forward you to specialists. You are not expected to be […]
PRESENTATION -Cybersecurity and the Role of the Food Safety Manager Read More »
By • June 14, 2022 If food fraud has probably been around since the beginning of all food commerce, why wasn’t food fraud prevention addressed 10 or 20, or 100 years ago? It took time for business and scholarly research to develop into what we now know as ‘food fraud prevention.’ Following up
EXCERPT – Why Wasn’t Food Fraud Prevention Addressed Years Ago? Read More »
By • June 7, 2022 ‘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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By • May 31, 2022 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
NEW PUBLICATION – Routine Activities Theory and Food Fraud Victimization – Update Read More »
By • May 27, 2022 Yesterday the UK Food Standards Agency (UK FSA) opened a request for comments regarding the investigatory powers of the UK National Food Crime Unit (UK NFCU). The focus is on prevention (not just catching food fraud), including new success metrics that focus on reducing the root causes. Submit
Request for Comments – from the UK National Food Crime Unit Read More »
By • April 26, 2022 I am honored to be the Chair – with our Vice-Chair Dr. Steven Gendel – of the IAFP Food Fraud Professional Development Group (FF PDG). A key activity of our PDG is the survey of our membership (below). This post serves as an invitation to both complete our
INVITATION –IAFP Food Fraud Professional Development Group Survey and Meeting Read More »
By • April 19, 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
ANNOUNCEMENT – Food Fraud Prevention MOOC at the Food Safety Summit (May 9, 2022) Read More »
By • April 12, 2022 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:
Codex and Food Fraud: Public Comments for their Electronic Working Group, Fourth Draft Read More »
