'This database is a critical step in protecting consumers,' said Dr. A more specific type of fraud, intentional or economically motivated adulteration of food ingredients has been defined by USP's Expert Panel on Food Ingredient Intentional Adulterants as the fraudulent addition of nonauthentic substances or removal or replacement of authentic substances without the purchaser's knowledge for economic gain of the seller. John Spink of Michigan State University.įood fraud was recently defined in a report commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security and funded by the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (University of Minnesota) as a collective term that encompasses the deliberate substitution, addition, tampering or misrepresentation of food, food ingredients or food packaging, or false or misleading statements made about a product for economic gain. Moore (lead author) and Markus Lipp of USP, and Dr. Records are divided by scholarly research (1,054 records) and media reports (251 records). It includes a total of 1,305 records for food fraud based on a total of 660 scholarly, media and other publicly available reports. The new database provides baseline information to assist interested parties in assessing the risks of specific products. USP's food ingredient standards are published in the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) compendium. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), a nonprofit scientific organization that develops standards to help ensure the identity, quality and purity of food ingredients, dietary supplements and pharmaceuticals.

Based on a review of records from scholarly journals, the top seven adulterated ingredients in the database are olive oil, milk, honey, saffron, orange juice, coffee, and apple juice. Rockville, Md., ApIn new research published in the April Journal of Food Science, analyses of the first known public database compiling reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food highlight the most fraud-prone ingredients in the food supply analytical detection methods and the type of fraud reported.

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