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Abstracts are invited for the International Association for Food Protection's annual European meeting. Registration will open in January. The deadline for abstract submissions is 16 January 2024.
Juliette Jensen will be presenting her research for her doctorate in Business Administration. She highlights that 80% of the organic meat supply chain is shared with conventional, giving an opportunity for fraud. The presentation will cover risk…
This review (open access) highlights serious detrimental food fraud cases originating in Asian countries, including sibutramine in dietary supplements, plasticizer contamination, gutter oil, and the adulteration of milk. The analysis encompasses…
The Youtube link for this live online symposium is here. The topics encompass how WTO fulfills a role in food fraud prevention through setting international trade rules. Speakers and panelists include FAN Steering Board members John Spink of…
Basmati rice is a defined term in the UK with a strict technical specification and legally-established trading goodwill. In 2017 an EU trademark application was made to use “Basmati” on a rice variety that does not meet this specification. The…
Speakers have been announced, abstracts are invited and registration is now open for the 4th iteration of this 1-day in-person conference. The meeting focuses, particularly, on recent practical applications of chromatography and other separation…
This review article assesses meat authentication techniques based on DNA, protein, and metabolite fingerprints of animal meat species for their applicability to cultured meat. Theu authors discuss areas in the cultured meat industry that are…
This review article covers the use of low-cost point-of-use molecular biology methods for meat speciation testing; methods such as loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) or gold nanoparticles linked with oligonucleotides. Such methods are…
This is the second in the series of webinars from Safefood, Food Drink Ireland Skillnet and SQT. 27 November, 12.30 GMT. Registration is here.
In this article the authors analysed the last decade of RASFF alerts relating to adulterated and unauthorised supplements and discussed the potential health impacts. They conclude that health concerns rise in parallel with the rise in the…
In this study (open access) the authors developed a chemometric model to discriminate adulterated maple syrup. Spectral measurement was by Attenuated Total Reflectance FTIR with data then processed using Principle Component Analysis. The authors…
This Commission overview report describes how Competent Authorities in Member States deliver their obligations to combat food fraud under Article 9(2) of the Official Control Regulations (2017/625).
It outlines how Member States fight fraud along…
It outlines how Member States fight fraud along…
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Hi Steve. I hope it's all going well. Congratulations on winning the co-ordinators' role. I'm reminded of a Groucho Marx quote - "I wouldn't want to join the sort of club that would accept someone like me as a member ...." John