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FAO GLOBEFISH launched its 2026 webinar series with an online session on “Aquatic Food Fraud: Impacts on Markets and Consumers and Tools to Fight it”, held on 18 June 2026.
The webinar brought together experts from FAO, the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of…
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Jul 6
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China is the largest market for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Asia.
This study (open access) tested the species of 186 “Atlantic Salmon” samples sold at the marketplace and online throughout China.  The researchers used a combination of PCR…
Jul 3
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This paper (open access) draws on previous cost of crime frameworks to develop a model specifically for food fraud in the UK. The novel features of the model are its use of ‘crime scheme’ as the unit of analysis and the introduction of ‘market…
Jul 1
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John Points published an article
The 12th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis will take place in Prague on 3 - 6 November.  Deadlines for abstract submission and early-bird registration are approaching over the next two months.
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Jun 26
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In this paper (open access) the authors propose a chemometric workflow for verifying rice varieties.
Authentic rice varieties were sourced from Ente Nazionale Risi, a public economic body supervised by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food…
Jun 19
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In this study (purchase required, US$ 24.95) the authors applied Atmospheric Pressure Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry (AP-MALDI-MS) to assess the authenticity of ground black pepper samples using a non-targeted…
Jun 18
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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is the basis of an increasing number of onsite sensors for both food authenticity and food contaminant applications. However, its practical application to filament-type herbal materials such as saffron…
Jun 11
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This paper (purchase required, US$ 38) reports the development of a point-of-use loop mediated isothermal (LAMP) assay to detect soybean adulteration in vegetable oils.
The LAMP primers of rtLAMP were designed based on the ITS2 sequence and further…
Jun 10
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In this free webinar from Tenet Law, award-winning investigative journalist Kaf Okpattah will talk about the new arms race of deepfake calls, psychological manipulation and advanced money laundering techniques. These criminals – many of them still…
Jun 10
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This review (open access) covers the main approaches for verifying tea traceability, including sensory analysis, stable isotope ratio analysis (SIRA), mineral element fingerprints, spectroscopy and mass spectrometry metabolomics, and emerging…
Jun 9
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The latest EU Agri-Food Suspicions report, for April 2026, has been published here.  As with previous months’ FAN have produced a rolling 3-month graphic to visualise the relative prevalence and trends in the main issues.  These are regulatory…
Jun 4
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This monthly highlights report has been produced for FAN members by one of our Partner organisations, iComplai.
The report is an AI-generated prioritised digest.  It is blended from online regulatory and media reports of food fraud incidents and…
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