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The Food Fraud Prevention Think Tank (Professor John Spink's group at Michigan State University) is seeking views on the use of the term "illicit" in the context of food fraud.  This has an impact on international standardisation, as well as the framing of legislation and on the communication and lesson-learning from food fraud incidents.

See the blog here for further details.  The survey is very short (10 questions) and framed using the analagy of the shadowy organised crime gangs operating in the Lego collectables market.

The Food Fraud Prevention Think Tank is run out of Michegan State University by FAN Advisory Board member Professor John Spink.

It offers a series of regular blogs, plus training and other resources both online and in-person.

Professor Spink's latest blog is on the topic of the "Grief Cycle" - the progression of corporate emotions and responses when a fraud is uncovered.  This moves the thinking on from prevention to incident response and continual improvement.

We are grateful that Professor Spink has also collaborated with FAN to write a "back to basics" guide to the principles of fraud risk assessment and mitigation.  This valuable resource can be found on our website here.