10 years ago, on the 14th July 2015, FAN was born - Happy 10th Anniversary to us! 🎉😍🏅🎂
Today marks 10 years of FAN curating and consolidating resources related to food authenticity testing and food fraud prevention in one open access platform (www.foodauthenticity.global), FAN is proud to be helping improve food safety standards and promoting good practices globally to ensure that consumers can have greater trust in the foods they buy.
To mark our anniversary, we asked some of our stakeholders to tell us (in about 1 minute) why FAN is special to them:
- Professor Chris Elliott, Queens University Belfast
- Professor Michael Walker, Queens University Belfast
- Sterling Crew, Chair of the Food Authenticity Network Advisory Board
- Andrew Quinn, National Food Crime Unit, Food Standards Agency
- Paula Cockroft, LGC Standards
- Selvarani Elahi, Executive Director of the Food Authenticity Network
- Amanda McCarthy, BRCGS
- Ron McNaughton, Scottish Food Crime and Incidents Unit, Food Standards Scotland.
With the launch of our new 2025 - 2027 Strategy, we are committed to working towards a world where collaboration and shared best practices in food fraud detection and prevention creates a safer, more transparent, and trusted global food supply for all consumers.
FAN will do this by continuing to cultivate a global community committed to advancing and sharing best practices in food fraud detection and prevention, helping ensure integrity, transparency and the trustworthiness of food systems for consumers worldwide
FAN would not be here today without our Members & Users, and our Partners, whose funding allow us to offer FAN resources free to any stakeholder in the world.
Special thanks to our Amazing Advisory Board and our FANtastic Executive Team (past & present): Stephen Ellison, Mark Woolfe, John Points, Merry Rivas Gonzalez, Gary Bird, Felicia Golden and Selvarani Elahi.
We're looking forward to the next 10 years!
