This September, Food Integrity Global 2024 saw the return of, ‘The Apples’, New Food’s industry awards created to recognise and celebrate some of the amazing and industry-leading talents within the food and beverage sector.
Our very own Executive Director, Selvarani Elahi was crowned ‘Food Defender of the Year’ for embodying the spirit of food integrity and consistently protecting our food system, through one or more actions in 2023/24! There was an extremely strong field; leading food safety expert Darin Detwiler, and Giles Chapman of the UK's National Food Crime Unit.
Selvarani told us: “I’m honoured to have won this prestigious industry award. We built FAN to provide a public service to help stakeholders resiliently navigate food fraud in times of continuing global uncertainty. We are passionate about food safety standards and ensuring consumers can continue to have confidence in the food they buy. FAN is an open access website and over the past nine years, we have curated information on food authenticity testing and food fraud prevention promoting good practices that help improve food standards around the world; building more resilient global food supply chains. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved and our contribution to science for a safer world. FAN is very much a team effort and I am incredibly grateful to my excellent colleagues, past and present (Stephen Ellison, Gary Bird, Merry Rivas, Mark Woolfe, Sterling Crew and John Points) for always making time for FAN despite their workloads!”
