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Food fraud is defined as the sale of food products
that are not up to recognised standards in order to
generate financial gain. Food fraud can appear in a
range of different formats.
3. Introduction to food Fraud
Food fraud is the act of purposely altering, misrepresenting,
mislabeling with any food product at any point along the farm–to–
table food supply–chain.
Fraud can occur in the raw material, in an ingredient, in the final
product or in the food’s packaging.
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4. Food fraud is the deception of consumers through
intentional adulteration of food:
(a) by substituting one product for another.
(b) using unapproved enhancements or additives.
(c) misrepresenting something (e.g., country of origin).
(d) misbranding or counterfeiting.
(e) stolen food shipments.
(f) intentional contamination with a variety of chemicals, biological agents or
other substances harmful to private– or public–health.
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5. 6 of the most commonly faked products and
how to avoid them
1. Olive oil can be tampered with in many ways, such as diluting the real
thing with less expensive oils (like soybean or sunflower) or diluting high-
quality olive oil with low quality.
2. Dairy products.
3. Honey.
4. Sea foods.
5. coffee can be adulterated with twigs, stone, barley, and corn husks to
increase the apparent weigh.
6. Saffron is one of the most expensive spices, but it’s also one of the most
knocked-off ones too.
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Saffron
7. Canned food
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canned food - food preserved by canning.
Canning is a method of preserving food in which the food contents
are processed and sealed in an airtight container. Canning provides a
shelf life typically ranging from one to five years.
8. Fraud of canned food
1. Can without label 🏷:
The stander canned food need to have
label But in some cases the producer
Tend to remove the label for individual
or/and economic and adulteration
purpose.
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9. Fraud of canned food
2- Mislabeling: written wrong
information about the product
such as writing perfect ingredient
but in the exist canned food
doesn’t contain the perfect
ingredients.
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10. Fraud of canned food
3- writing wrong weight for
economic
Purpose. For example the really
weight is
300g but on the label they write 500g
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11. Fraud of canned food
4- using cheap materials in
production. Such as cheapest
metal to producing cane and
using cheap additive and
cheap raw material.
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12. Fraud of canned food
5- changing the origin
of the product such as the
canned food produced in the
Iraq but they write made in
Turkey .
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13. Fraud of canned food
6- changing the really
expiry date.(wrong expiry
date).
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14. How to prevent and detect food fraud
An effective food fraud prevention program is a combination of
science, data and common sense.
The first step is to do a vulnerability assessment test, where you
answer a basic question: how likely is my company to be on the
receiving end of food fraud? To do that, you’ll have to audit your
suppliers first.
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15. How to prevent and detect food fraud
Here is a series of question to guide you:
1. Do they have a good reputation? Were they involved in food fraud incidents in
the past?
2. What’s the level of trustworthiness of the country where they operate?
3. Who are the suppliers of your suppliers?
4. Is it a new supplier, or do you have an established relationship with them?
5. Is the documentation they provide complete and clear?
6. Are the ingredients you buy from them at risk of adulteration?
7. Are their products certified?
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