The Food Authenticity Online Conference – Analysis for Authenticity, was held online on February 11-12 2025.
Over the two days, the >800 attendees, had the opportunity to listen to the keynote speeches of the Chief Scientific Advisers for Defra (Professor Gideon Henderson) and FSA (Professor Robin May) who both emphasised the importance of science and evidence in underpinning government policy and decision making. They also highlighted government’s critical role in supporting the development of new technology and innovation, allowing us to address future challenges in the food system.
Our speakers from day one explained untargeted testing and machine learning in engaging & understandable terms, showing that AI applications have been in use for decades. We also learned just how much authenticity research Defra and FSA is doing to try and stay ahead of fraudsters to protect legitimate businesses and consumers.
On day two, speakers highlighted the importance of authenticity reference databases/ datasets, their reliability and the accessibility of such data. We also heard how we need to have greater and continued cross sector collaboration to be more effective in detecting and preventing food fraud in the global food supply chain.
The conference recordings are now available here.
Presentations from both days are also available at the links below.
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Day 1: 11 February 2025 |
Day 2: 12 February 2025 |
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1. Defra and FSA Food Authenticity Research_Sophie Rollinson_Bhavna Parmar: view |
1. Keynote_Professor Robin May_Chief Scientific Advisor, FSA: view |
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2. Best practice in building databases with machine learning_Kate Kemsley: view |
2. The European food fraud community of practice (EFF-CoP) project_Saskia Van Ruth: view |
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3. Emerging methods for verifying the country of origin of food_Helen Grundy: view |
3. Cross government collaboration for enhanced resilience, dissemination & training_Selvarani Elahi: view |
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4. Analytical tools to support the verification of alternative proteins_Rosario Romero: view |
4. Benefits of data sharing for industry_Ruth McDonald: view |
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5. Developing omics-based tools to verify the provenance of food and beverages_Renata Garbellini: view |
5.The benefits of internationally harmonised standards_Sara Gibbs: view |
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6. Untargeted LCMS to identify markers_Arne Dubecke: view |
6. How effective are screening/point of contact approaches?_Stephanie Heaney: view |
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7. Food authenticity testing with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)_Gavin Nixon: view |
For anyone who attended and hasn't yet completed the very short feedback survey, we'd love to hear your views please.
Thank you
Selvarani
FAN Executive Director
