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13029567681?profile=RESIZE_400xThe Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission have published a report that includes an overview of food fraud information sharing networks and incident data held around the world.  (including both the Food Industry Intelligence Network, Fiin, and the 2022 Defra report FA0175 into food fraud drivers and mitigation tools).

The report recommends the funding of a new predictive analytics model to try and prioritise future fraud risks based on historic patterns of reported incidents.  This would be predicated on improved data sharing between different countries and between industry and governments.  The report recommends a public-private partnership model to develop the concept.

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Coffee bean quality is measured on a decimal scale from zero to 100, and a speciality coffee must score 80 or more. This Q-scale allows buyers to differentiate premium coffee from lower scoring ‘commodity’ coffee. Samples of raw beans are sent to three expert tasters, who prepare coffee from each batch, and score it to determine its Q score. Brazilian researchers have developed a rapid method based on MSI and AI (artifical intelligence), which can obtain a Q score avoiding human error. Although very promising, the technique requires further research as the model cannot determine whether beans score is 80 or 90, which would require further calibration with coffee beans having these Q scores. 

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