Food Fraud? Watchdog Group Raises Concerns

Nordin Exi

 

Published on Jul 18, 2013

 

Non-profit group tracks reports of fake ingredients in products from olive oil to juice.

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Food Fraud-Economically Motivated Adulteration with Mitchell K. Weinberg, LL.B.
 

Andy Moreno
 

Published on Jul 18, 2013

 

 

Food Fraud: Economically Motivated Adulteration with Mitchell K. Weinberg, LL.B.

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Duration: 28 minutes, 10 seconds
Mitchell Weinberg is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Supply Chain Assessment Technologies Corporation (INSCATECH). INSCATECH has created a comprehensive solution to protect the world's food supply chains from FOOD FRAUD (economically motivated adulteration). Using its proprietary methodology and specially trained fraud detection professionals, INSCATECH conducts food supply chain vulnerability assessments to identify the sources of Food Fraud and to recommend mitigation solutions that help to prevent our food from being adulterated. INSCATECH has created a secure and user-friendly software tool that is used by the food industry to manage and protect food supply chains from Food Fraud.
Mitchell is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Pre-Law and Sociology and the McGill University School of Law in Montreal, Canada where he obtained his Common Law (LL.B) and Civil Law (B.C.L.) degrees in 1991.
1. Introduction.
2. What is food fraud?
3. Who would commit this act?
4. What is concealment?
5. What is counterfeiting?
6. What is dilution?
7. What is the grey/parallel market? a. Is there theft, diversion?
8. What is mislabeling?
9. What is substitution?
10. What are unapproved enhancements?
11. What does Inscatech do to help fight these food fraud acts?
12. Conclusion.
Contact:
Mitchell K. Weinberg B.A, B.C.L, LL.B
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer
INSCATECH
373 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor
New York City, New York 10016
347-448-2790
mitchellweinberg@inscatech.com

 

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Food Fraud with Senior Director of Food Standards at the United States Pharmacopeial Convention USP

Andy Moreno
 

Published on Jul 19, 2013

 

Food fraud: USP's Food Fraud Database Markus Lipp, Ph.D., Senior Director for Food Standards, U.S. Pharmacopeia.
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Duration: 23 minutes, 40 seconds.
Dr. Markus Lipp is the Senior Director for Food Standards at the U.S. Pharmacopeia.
USP is a non-profit scientific organization that sets standards for the identity, quality and purity of pharmaceuticals, food ingredients and dietary supplements.
USP publishes quality standards for food ingredients in the Food Chemicals Codex; and for dietary supplements in the Dietary Supplements Compendium.
Prior to this position, Dr. Lipp worked as the Director for Science and Research at the International Bottled Water Association and as the Global Lead for Detection Methods and Reference Materials relevant to genetically modified organisms at Monsanto Co's headquarters in St. Louis, MO.
His experience includes working for Unilever at their Dutch research facility and for the Joint Research Center of the European Commission at its facility in Italy, both position focused on ensuring food authenticity and safety.
Dr. Lipp holds a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Agenda:
1. Introduction.
2. What is food fraud?
3. Is there a systematic compilation of food fraud scholarly and media articles?
4. What is the U.S. Pharmacopeia?
5. What is the U.S. Pharmacopeia database repository for ingredient fraud reports?
6. What are the risks and trends for economically motivated adulteration, authenticity, fraud, or counterfeiting of food ingredients?
7. Is there a susceptibility or vulnerability of individual ingredients to fraud?
8. Does the database include a library of detection methods reported in peer-reviewed scientific journals?
9. An extract of the information in the database is also published in the Food Chemicals Codex.
10. Article in Journal of Food Science regarding USP's Food Ingredients Fraud Database.
11. Conclusion.
Contact:
Markus Lipp, Ph.D.
Senior Director for Food Standards
U.S. Pharmacopeia
301-230-6366
mxl@usp.org
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