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The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission have published their monthly collation of food fraud reports for March 2025 here Thanks again to FAN member Bruno Sechet who has turned these into an infographic.  The original infographic, along with his commentary, is on Bruno's LinkedIn feed where you can also access his other food safety infographics and services.

These collations from the JRC are based on global media reports, and so give a different picture to EU agri-food "suspicions" (as analysed in our most recent blog), which is different again to annual collations of official reports as aggregated in our annual summaries.  It is important, when conducting your own risk assessments, to appreciate what a specific data source includes and what it does not.  It is helpful to look at multiple, complementary, data sources and aggregates.

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The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission have published their monthly collation of food fraud reports for February 2025 here Thanks again to FAN member Bruno Sechet who has turned these into an infographic.  The original infographic, along with his commentary, is on Bruno's LinkedIn feed.

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These collations are based on global media reports, and so give a different picture to EU official "suspicions" (as analysed in our recent blog), which is different again to annual collations of official reports as aggregated in our annual summaries.  It is important, when conducting your own risk assessments, to appreciate what a specific data source includes and what it does not.  It is helpful to look at multiple, complementary, data sources.

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JRC Fraud Media Reports Collation - January 2025

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission have published their monthly collation of food fraud reports for January 2025 here, following on quickly from the final 2024 collations which were highlighted in our blog on 5th February..  Thanks again to FAN member Bruno Sechet who has turned these into an infographic.  The original infographic, along with his commentary, is on Bruno's LinkedIn feed.

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The source for the JRC collation are global media reports, and these always gives a slightly different picture than collating official reports.  Best practice in horizonscanning is to look at multiple collations of fraud incidents/suspicions along with their commentaries, both official and media, and make an intelligent assessment of their complementary scopes and limitations when drawing insight.  FAN's annual aggregated report gives a high-level annual overview for 2024 from official reports.

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The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission have published their monthly collation of food fraud reports, combined for November and December 2024, here.  Thanks again to FAN member Bruno Sechet who has turned these into an infographic.  The original infographic (in much better resolution!), along with his commentary, is on Bruno's LinkedIn feed.

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The source for the JRC collation are global media reports, and these always gives a slightly different picture than collating official reports.  Best practice in horizonscanning is to look at multiple collations of fraud incidents/suspicions along with their commentaries, both official and media, and make an intelligent assessment of their complementary scopes and limitations when drawing insight.  FAN's annual aggregated report gives a high-level overview of food fraud incidents in 2023 as recorded in official reports. The 2024 version is in preparation and will be published on our website soon.   

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