Items Tagged with 'food fraud'

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Supply chains

Food fraud is not only an economic drain but also a supply chain safety concern

July 14, 2020

Guarding against food fraud in the supply chain can be a costly, resource-intensive effort—but the potential effects of not catching it can be disastrous.

Supply Chain

Fighting food fraud with the right tools

Analytical and software tools make it easier to manage suppliers and weed out fraudulent ones

Wayne Labs

September 24, 2018

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Severin Weiss, CEO of SpecPage and an expert in integrated software process solutions for recipe-based food and beverage processors, thinks PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) are two sets of tools that can help food processors avoid using fraudulent ingredients from less-than-scrupulous suppliers.

Food fraud

Combatting the growth of fake food

Food is now the fourth most valuable counterfeit market, and foods such as olive oil, honey, fish, vinegar, vanilla and coffee top the list.

Maria Ferrante

November 29, 2017

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As brand manufacturers continue to source from an ever-growing list of ingredients and suppliers, food is now the fourth most valuable counterfeit market, according to the 2016 Brand Protection and Product Traceability Market Research Report.

Food fraud

How barcodes can help fight food fraud

Food ranks among the top five most valuable counterfeit markets

Sean Riley

September 28, 2017

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Within the layered approach to brand protection are overt technologies — barcodes, holograms, watermarks, embossing and etching — and covert technologies — taggants, UV, infrared and fluorescent inks, Smart technology and radio frequency identification (RFID).

FSMA

USP's new Food Fraud Database aims to help with FSMA

The redesigned database is meant to provide brand protection, increase consumer trust.

August 3, 2016

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Its goal is to help food manufacturers and retailers make informed decisions about ingredients in their portfolio that may have a greater potential of being adulterated.

TECH FLASH

New tool to win the food fraud battle

EMAlert seeks to save manufacturers from economically motivated adulteration.

Jeremy Gerrard

April 26, 2016

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The Grocery Manufacturers Association and Battelle are partnering to provide a new secure, intuitive web-based software tool.

New regulations to prevent fish fraud proposed

February 23, 2016

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The Presidential Task Force on Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and Seafood Fraud has proposed a new set of regulations.

Food Safety

VACCP: HACCP for vulnerability assessments

Vulnerability Assessment and Critical Control Point applies well-understood HACCP principles to protect food and beverage products from fraud and adulteration.

Wayne Labs

February 17, 2016

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Endorsed by GFSI, VACCP (Vulnerability Assessment and Critical Control Point) is based on HACCP.

MSU aids world in combating food fraud

Jeremy Gerrard

December 17, 2015

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Michigan State University (MSU)is helping the US and countries around the world establish strategies to fight food fraud.

TECH FLASH

Oceana applauds seafood fraud bill

The Protecting Honest Fishermen Act of 2015 would ensure expansion of task force guidelines to include all seafood species.

Jeremy Gerrard

August 12, 2015

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Oceana commends US representatives for introducing the new legislation.

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Items Tagged with 'food fraud'

ARTICLES

Food fraud is not only an economic drain but also a supply chain safety concern

Fighting food fraud with the right tools

Combatting the growth of fake food

How barcodes can help fight food fraud

USP's new Food Fraud Database aims to help with FSMA

New tool to win the food fraud battle

New regulations to prevent fish fraud proposed

VACCP: HACCP for vulnerability assessments

MSU aids world in combating food fraud

Oceana applauds seafood fraud bill

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