By • September 7, 2021 (Part 1 of a multi-post series) Participate in the FDA direction on food e-commerce. This is a review of the Federal Register announcement earlier today about the FDA food safety/e-commerce public meeting on October 19, 2021. The event addresses e-commerce and new business models based on supply chain […]
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By • August 31, 2021 Pest control? You might ask, how is this a part of food fraud prevention? Well, GFSI explicitly identifies pest control as a requirement for procurement and purchasing. Think about it… any product or service that is in your food operations could be the source of a food safety
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By • August 24, 2021 A high-ranking government food policy leader once stated to me that their food companies didn’t “do GFSI” but did implement FSSC, SQF, IFS, BRC, or others. The leader didn’t know that GFSI is the benchmark for those food safety management systems. So, what is GFSI and its compliance
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By • August 17, 2021 Attached is an excerpt from my 2019 Food Fraud Prevention textbook that reviews early warning systems compared to just rapid detection of an incident. COVID-19 created even more system weakness due to massive and novel supply chain disruptions. Waiting for an incident to occur, and rapidly responding, is
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By • August 10, 2021 If you handle or sell organic products, this Primer on Organic Product Fraud Audit Guide is a very helpful list of 20 questions to prepare for an inspection or conduct a self-assessment. The primer and questions were developed with the Organic Trade Association for the free online training
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By • August 3, 2021 USDA recently published their Organic Product Fraud Prevention training in a free, online, and public format. This is part of the training for USDA inspectors. The Organic Trade Association was funded for the content we co-developed, and which I presented. Our two courses are: “Organic Fraud and the
By • July 27, 2021 Consumers often want very simple and clear instructions on how to avoid product fraud, including food fraud. We experts often don’t have a good response. This problem led to our development of our consumer resource that we refer to as the “5 Word Survey.” (These questions actually help
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By • July 20, 2021 This survey is your opportunity to be heard and to help lead the direction of food fraud prevention. Our IAFP Food Fraud Professional Development Group has published an “interest survey” to be completed by IAFP and PDG members, plus the public at large. We are reviewing our direction
