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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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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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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