The Chair of the Food Authenticity Network's Advisory Board, Sterling Crew, will be speaking at the next NEMIS Academy webinar:
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024
⏰ Time: 02:00 PM Europe/Zurich
📍 Location: Online (Free registration)
Recording is available here
📈 Key Topics Include:
✅ Overview of food fraud and its impact on the global food industry.
✅ Case studies, including the melamine and horsemeat incidents.
✅Strategies for enhancing detection and prevention of food fraud.
✅Role of the Food Authenticity Network in promoting global food integrity.
About the webinar:
Food fraud is an age old problem that reoccurs periodically in the global supply network. The prevention of food fraud is paramount to protect the trust of our consumers and to maintain fair, sustainable business practices. No process can guarantee that food and food supply are not the target of criminal activity. The purpose of this presentation is to act as a guide through approaches and processes to improve the resilience of supply networks to food fraud.
Food fraud costs the global food industry an estimated US$40 billion a year, in addition to the loss of confidence and economic disadvantage to the consumer.
Food fraud can harm consumers, causing illness and even death in some cases. This was true in 2008 when melamine was used as a nitrogen source to fraudulently increase the measured protein content of milk, resulting in more than 50,000 babies hospitalised and six deaths after having consumed contaminated infant formula.
Since the 2013 issue of the fraudulent replacement of horsemeat in UK beef products, there is world-wide consensus that as well as being better at detecting food fraud, more needs to be done to prevent food fraud from happening in the first place.
Sterling looks at the common factors in many of the recent cases and how risks can be mitigated to reduce vulnerability to fraud and assure the authenticity of food. In doing so, he will review various risk factors, which create vulnerabilities in a supply network and examine selected risk mitigation measures aimed at preventing food fraud.
Sterling will also cover the role played by the Food Authenticity Network (www.foodauthenticity.global), an open access website that brings together global information on food authenticity testing, food fraud mitigation and food supply chain integrity in one convenient location.
