Join our free webinar and hear Fera and BSI experts discuss: How is food fraud evolving and what should you do? Including the challenges of global supply chains from scale, impact, emerging trends and new criminal activity supporting fraud.
Horse meat in beef lasagne, Olives coloured with copper sulphate, Counterfeit sugar contaminated with fertilizer, and Melamine in milk powder are amongst a growing list of food fraud cases.
The impact of food fraud ranges from harmful adulteration potentially resulting in illness or death, to unethical substitution of inferior products which can destroy brand reputation or even the reputation of an entire exporting country. In all cases, the consumer does not get exactly what they expected or what they have paid for.
Webinar agenda:
- Food fraud today, the impact of a pandemic such as Coronavirus/ COVID 19
- Case studies - real life food fraud
- Scale and impact: the challenges of global supply chains
- Emerging trends and threats
- New criminal activity supporting fraud
- Preventing food fraud (you can’t but you can make it more difficult and unappealing)
- Live Q&A
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Meet the presenters
Dr. James Donarski holds joint positions as the head of food authenticity at Fera Science and a senior lecturer in the field of chemistry at Newcastle University.
James has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles including guidelines for building food authenticity databases. He is a member of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) technical committee 460 – Food Authenticity, where he acts as a national expert in the field of food authentication.
Dr. Adrian Charlton BSc, PhD is a principal scientist and biochemist at Fera Science with over 20 years of post-doctoral experience and 60+ peer reviewed publications.
Adrian’s expertise relates to the control and regulation of adulterants, contaminants and allergens that threaten a sustainable food supply chain.Representing UK and international governments in relation to food safety, quality and authenticity, Adrian advises bodies including UN-FAO, WHO, EU, EFSA, CEN and ISO. Adrian also chairs the UK Bee Products Committee working closely with BSI, developing the technical aspects of the Food Assurance Kitemark.
