The current state of food fraud prevention: overview and requirements to address ‘How to Start?’ and ‘How Much is Enough?’

Publication date: Available online 15 June 2019Source: Current Opinion in Food ScienceAuthor(s): John W SpinkFood Fraud – intentional deception for economic gain using food – is one of the most urgent and active food research and regulatory areas. The current state of research has expanded to include criminology, public policy, business enterprise risk management, and implementation of a management system. This range of disciplines has been critical since the hazard analysis, and prevention strategies are fundamentally different when addressing an intelligent human adversary. The broad range of literature has been adopted or adapted to Food Fraud prevention including the identification of the next set of urgent questions: ‘How much is enough?’ and ‘How to start?’ A summary of the literature was provided with a summary of seven questions, two concepts, seven critical steps, and one decision. The seven questions provide a gap analysis to calibrate how much has been completed and how much is still to be done. The two concepts are policy level framing questions for the next activity. The seven steps are for a Food Fraud Task Force that uses the previous insight to create a Food Fraud Prevention Strategy proposal including resource-allocation and key task identification. Finally, the ‘One Decision’ is an official acceptance of the proposed strategy and the ongoing monitoring of the successful and thorough implementation of the management system. This overall method...
Source: Current Opinion in Food Science - Category: Food Science Source Type: research