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2. 2
The war on food fraud
Food fraud is a growing concern.
Recent food fraud scandals have
increased the need to protect
consumers by strengthening the food
industry’s ability to detect and combat
fraud within organisations and across
supply chains.
The risks have never been higher. While
food fraud is not new, the criminal
motivation to adulterate or counterfeit
food for financial gain is growing and
a new solution is needed to fight back.
Current food safety management
systems are not designed for fraud
detection or mitigation, but new food
safety guidelines require it.
That is why SSAFE has collaborated
with PwC to create a food fraud
vulnerability assessment that you can
use free-of-charge to help identify your
vulnerabilities to food fraud threats.
This is an industry-led solution that
supports the Consumer Goods Forum’s
Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)
guidelines. SSAFE developed the
assessment with PwC, Wageningen
University, VU University Amsterdam
and in consultation with food industry
leaders around the world to help put
you in a stronger position to fight fraud.
Want to assess your
vulnerability to food fraud?
Go to www.ssafe-food.org now to
download the assessment in Excel or
online at www.pwc.com/foodfraud.
The assessment will be available on
the Apple App Store or Google Play
from January 2016.
Begin your confidential, anonymous
and free assessment of your food
fraud vulnerabilities today.
2
Free online tool helps
food companies protect
consumers by fighting
fraud.
“As a non-profit organisation SSAFE
believes that protecting consumers
is vital. And by developing this free
tool we hope to reduce criminal
activity that adulterates food for
economic gain.”
Quincy Lissaur, SSAFE
3. 3Food fraud vulnerability assessment
What you don’t
know can hurt you
Companies are losing money and
customers are losing faith. Food
fraud is estimated to cost the global
food industry US$30 to $40 billion
every year1
.
But beyond the economic cost, food
fraud can lead to serious public
health risks and damage brands.
Food scandals, such as horse meat
being passed off as minced beef in
Europe and melamine being added
to dairy products in China, have
increased the urgency for the food
industry to take action.
Globalisation and increasingly
complex supply chains are creating
huge opportunities and rewards
for fraudsters. The collision
of megatrends – particularly
climate change, resource scarcity,
urbanisation and demographic
change – are increasing
vulnerabilities and making it easier
for criminals to profit from fraud.
Today, even the most basic foods can
involve huge numbers of suppliers
around the world.
Small wonder, then, that food
fraud is increasing.
In response GFSI is adding two
new requirements to its guidance
document to support companies
in reducing the risks from food
fraud to their own organisation and
consumers. By requiring companies
to assess their vulnerability to food
fraud and develop control plans to
reduce their vulnerabilities, fraud
mitigation will become an integral
part of food safety management
systems and a company’s enterprise
risk management framework.
Our food fraud vulnerability
assessment is purpose built to
help companies identify areas
of vulnerability and meet the
requirements of all GFSI recognised
certification schemes as well as
several regulatory authorities
around the world.
It’s a great place to start in
identifying your vulnerabilities and
planning your mitigation efforts.
Food fraud is estimated
to cost the global food
industry US$30 to $40
billion every year.
John Spink, Michigan State University
1 John Spink, Michigan State University, 2014.
4. 4
Ensuring food is safely produced,
transported and consumed is
a shared responsibility – our
assessment tool is just one part of
that solution, by helping you get
into the minds of fraudsters.
It’s a science-based tool, based on
the study of criminal behaviour and
criminal decision making. Structured
into two parts, the first part gets to the
elements affecting criminal behaviour,
while the second part relates to your
company and its external relationships
and environment (such as suppliers).
The assessment is easy to use and
can be applied anywhere in the food
supply chain, from animal feed and
primary production to manufacturing
and catering. It applies fraud theory
to support the identification of
vulnerabilities in the food supply chain.
There are three main elements –
opportunities, motivations and absence
of fraud control measures – that
criminologists believe determine a
company’s vulnerability to food fraud,
which make up the focus of our food
fraud vulnerability assessment.
Food fraud vulnerability assessment concept
‘Opportunities’ and ‘motivations’ are determined by the company’s internal and
external environment and are defined as the potential fraud risk factors. The potential
risk resulting from these two elements can be mitigated by the third element; the
‘fraud control measures’ which companies implement to detect or prevent fraud.
Think like a criminal
to fight food fraud
Opportunity
related fraud
risk factors
Motivations
related fraud
risk factors
Fraud
Control
Measures
Actual
fraud
vulnerability
The assessment is easy to use and
can be applied anywhere in the
food supply chain, from animal
feed and primary production to
manufacturing and catering.
5. 5Food fraud vulnerability assessment
Ready to get started? A few
things you should know
The tool is free-to-use for any company. Go online, download the app or use the spreadsheet to complete our 50
assessment questions (app available from January 2016).
You can use the tool to assess your vulnerability to fraud at an ingredient, product, brand, facility, country or
company-wide level. If you want help deciding on where to apply the tool in your organisation, complete the
decision tree.
The online tool is easy to use and you have the option to delegate responsibility for completing specific questions
to different colleagues and departments to ensure its smooth completion by the right people, no matter how big or
small your organisation.
Once completed, and depending on how you decided to apply the tool, the assessment will give you a profile of
your company’s potential food fraud vulnerability, which can form the basis for the development of interventions to
mitigate identified vulnerabilities, as well as assessing potential risk to the enterprise.
The assessment doesn’t give specific recommendations for mitigation techniques, but it does provide links to
useful guidance on how and where to find solutions. It is not designed to detect fraud or predict future food
fraud incidents. Yet by addressing identified vulnerabilities, fraudulent activities may be identified and give you
the opportunity to stop criminal activity. You can use this tool as part of your food safety management system –
remember fraud vulnerabilities change over time, so use it regularly.
At the end of the assessment you’ll get a report that can be added to your food safety documentation, which includes
spider web graphics that illustrate and identify potentially high-risk areas of vulnerability. The outputs will enable
you to prepare mitigation strategies and techniques, including the introduction of additional controls for reducing
your food fraud risks.
Responses to the assessment remain confidential to the company carrying out the assessment. It is important to note
that respondents and their organisations are not identifiable from the online information recorded. All identifiable
data is deleted at the end of your assessment, and all remaining data is aggregated to support general benchmarking
and research to continue to improve the tool and provide additional feedback to the industry.
You can use the tool to assess
your vulnerability to fraud
at an ingredient, product,
brand, facility, country or
company-wide level.
6. 6
Food may be about taste and
nutrition for most of us, but for
fraudsters it’s always about using
food as a pawn to make easy
money to maximise gains and
minimise losses.
In the graphic below are the many ways
fraud is committed. So follow the money
and you may catch a thief adulterating
or counterfeiting your food.
We hope our tool helps inform you of
vulnerabilities in your organisation so
you can ensure criminals are less willing
and less able to profit from food fraud at
your expense.
And a few things you
may want to know
Money, money, money motivates food fraudsters
Dilution
Mixing a liquid ingredient
of high value with a liquid
of lower value.
Substitution
Replacing an ingredient,
or part of the product,
of high value with another
ingredient, or part of the
product, of lower value.
Concealment
Hiding the low quality
of food ingredients
or product.
Mislabelling
Placing false claims
on packaging for
economic gain.
Unapproved
enhancement
Adding unknown and
undeclared materials
to food products to enhance
the quality attributes.
Counterfeiting
Copying the brand
name, packaging concept,
recipe, processing method
etc. of food products
for economic gain.
Grey market production/
theft/diversion
Sales of excess
unreported product.
Note that ‘grey market production/theft/diversion’
is out of the scope for this assessment tool (but
may be picked up anyway).6
7. 7Food fraud vulnerability assessment
The global food industry is calling time on food fraud, with the GFSI adding the following two
requirements to its guidance document to help food companies reduce their risks from fraud.
1. Food fraud vulnerability
assessment
Food organisations should assess
and document their vulnerability to
food fraud to identify potential risks
and prioritise food fraud mitigation
measures.
2. Food fraud mitigation plan
Food organisations should have a
documented plan that specifies how
it is reducing public health risks from
identified food fraud vulnerabilities. This
plan will cover the relevant GFSI scope
and be supported by the organisation’s
food safety management system.
With the use of our freely-available
online tool it will put you in a stronger
position to identify vulnerabilities,
reduce risks and give consumers greater
confidence in the safety of your food.
We recommend you use this assessment
tool at part of your overall food safety
management system.
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Mitigation of
unintentional/
accidental
adulteration
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intentional
adulteration
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Mitigation of
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