Food Fraud

Food fraud is the act of purposely altering, misrepresenting, mislabeling, substituting or tampering with any food product at any point along the farm–to–table food supply–chain. Fraud can occur in the raw material, in an ingredient, in the final product or in the food’s packaging

Biosensors and Food Safety

Biosensor is an analytical device that converts the biological reaction into electrical signals with the help of a transducer and generates real time Data. It is used detect analyte that interacts with the biological element associated with the transducer that gives out a measurable signal proportional to target analyte. The biological membranes can vary form microbes, cell organelles to nucleic acid. Transducer can be optical, electrochemical depending on the type of interaction with analyte.

Food safety requires fast effective real time methods to take the edge of adulteration, neurotoxins, pathogens, harmful chemicals, heavy metals etc. that affects humans, plants and animals. Biosensors in food safety can be a cost effective and time saving approach towards maintaining the international stands in food industries

Food safety Laws & Regulations

Food Safety Regulations. Modern day food safety regulations were developed on sound scientific principles to protect consumers from incidents of foodborne illness and death. With globalization, the supply chain must be carefully monitored to ensure imports meet food safety regulations and are free from tampering.

Food Safety Certifications

 Facilities which prepare, handle or serve open hypothetically hazardous food should have an owner or employee who has been successfully completed an approved and accredited with food safety certification examination. Foodservice business which serves "high risk" populations will be the first part of the industry required to fulfill with the new guidelines. At least one individual from each foodservice establishment should be certified in food safety techniques. The original certificate is required to be maintained on site at the facility. It is the duty of the certified food supervisor to ensure that all employees have sufficient knowledge and are well trained in food safety as it recounts to their assigned duties which are framed by FDA (Food and drug administration)

PCR and Food Industry

The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique was invented by kary B. Mullis in 1985, which helped scientist in making millions of copies of DNA, Which later had a wide spread usage in the many disciplines of life sciences from diagnostics of genetic disorders to identification of HIV in Human cells. There is increase in demand for a real time technique in Food Industry for quality assurance of food, which can bypass microbial method as they consume more time. In this case PCR is playing a key role in detection of pathogens in food and minimizing the affect food borne illness. PCR based methods in Food Microbiology led to the development of faster, much sensitive and more specific protocols.

Food Safety & Quality Management Strategies and Technologies

Quality management implementation it is a management technique to assure, to control and to monitor the product quality in order to ensure that the end product was manufactured with high quality the development of food safety is mandatory while quality assurance is voluntary. It is not the same to implement food safety such as: GMP, SSOP, HACCP and/or others, that assures the consumption of food is safe, than to implement quality assurance

Supply Chain Vulnerability Risk Assessments

Potential supply chain risks are identified by a systematic investigation of all factors (sources) that might lead to risks The consequence of each identified risk and its corresponding likelihood are determined by analysis the risks are prioritized based on their consequence and likelihood For those risks that need to be addressed with action, mitigation strategies are developed in accordance to the objective of the supply chain

Food Fraud mitigation

The plan must be designed to address the risk factors identified in the food fraud vulnerability assessment. It will be different for every company depending on the types of risks identified, as well as the nature of the companies’ ingredients, products, and geographic presence. PwC can help you design and implement a food fraud risk mitigation plan, employing our extensive experience in risk assessment, internal controls and supplier management. Food fraud mitigation plan will address areas such as governance processes, company ethics, workplace culture, sourcing and supplier management, and controls over processing and distributing food to consumers.

Horizon scanning and testing

Horizon Scan monitors commodity safety and integrity issues worldwide, collecting data daily from more than 100 food safety agencies and other reliable sources, delivering timely alerts on emerging food safety issues. It can help you to meet all consumer and regulatory demands for transparency and accountability across the ingredient supply chain, by identifying potential food safety threats before they become a problem.

Safety of the food supply- From Farm to Market

The consumption of fresh cut produce continues to increase globally. Technological advancements have in turn aided in increased global production of fresh produce to meet the increasing demand. However, there is serious concern as to whether this increase in supply and demand is leading to safety issues, as showcased by the alarming number of outbreaks associated with fresh vegetables and fruits, in the US as well as globally. And also it is important for people to understand the activities contribute in the food industry for the safety of food and how they can decrease the risk of foodborne illness. From processes on the farm to practices in the kitchen

 Food Safety Regulations & International Food Trade

International Food Trade signs that food has gone international. More and more food is moving across borders for a combination of social, economic and technological reasons. Transportation has improved greatly, and better ways, such as freezing, have been found to preserve foods. Many developing nations were ready to sell the foods they were producing to obtain funds to continue building up their countries

Blockchain in Food Industry

Blockchain technology is a way of storing and sharing information across a network of users in an open virtual space. Blockchain technology allows for users to look at all transactions simultaneously and in real-time.Blockchain makes a supply chain more transparent at an all-new level. It also empowers the entire chain to be more responsive to any food safety disasters.Blockchain also allows specific products to be traced at any given time, which would help to reduce food waste. For instance, contaminated products can be traced easily and quickly, while safe foods would remain on the shelves and not be sent to landfills.

Food Fraud: Detection, Prevention & Management

The process to ensure the security of food and drink from all forms of intentional malicious attack including ideologically motivated attack leading to contamination. Food Fraud is an important and evolving food industry focus. Even though the vast majority of these incidents do not have a health hazard in some ways they are more dangerous because the substances and actions are unknown and untraceable Food Fraud is the collective term encompassing the intentional substitution, addition, tampering or misrepresentation of food/feed, food/feed ingredients or food/feed packaging, labelling, product information or false or misleading statements made about a product for economic gain that could impact consumer health

Public health risks associated with food fraud

Food fraud, including the more defined subcategory of economically motivated adulteration, is a food risk that is gaining recognition and concern. Regardless of the cause of the food risk, adulteration of food is both an industry and a government responsibility. Food safety, food fraud, and food defense incidents can create adulteration of food with public health threats. Food fraud is an intentional act for economic gain, whereas a food safety incident is an unintentional act with unintentional harm, and a food defense incident is an intentional act with intentional harm.

 

Market Analysis Report:

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 Research and Business Value:

1. Globally:

The worldwide nourishment security testing industry is developing at 3.5% a year and is relied upon to be worth 16.1 Billion USD by 2020.

Worldwide Nourishment Security Testing Business sector Conjecture till 2018 By Contaminants - Standpoint to 2018

1-Pesticides Testing

2-Pathogen Testing

3-GMO Testing

4-Poison Testing

There is a demand for more safe systems of obtaining, producing, distribution and consumption of food, which requires more regulation and infrastructure at all levels of Food supply chains. It’s very important to determine how the growth of Populations and changing lifestyles has brought great demand for more safe food, with new and fast-spreading foodborne illnesses globally. There is an importance of developing all safe food procedures transparent for the consumers.

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In Europe, sustenance wellbeing strategy has been underscored by the contributed endeavors from Control Laboratories (CLs), National Reference Laboratories (NRLs), and EU Reference Laboratories (EURLs). These experts have a fundamental point of securing buyer wellbeing by guaranteeing the nature of the sustenance production network. Nourishment wellbeing strategies coordinated in Europe take after the procedure of "from ranch to fork." The European market is a develop showcase and has a few administrative bodies to direct stringently the utilization of sustenance flavors and enhancers, consequently dealing with the customers of the countries. Germany constitutes the real offer having 24% taken after by the UK (23%), Spain (10%), Netherland (5%) and Italy (9%). $ 823 million US dollar is the market measured by estimation of the manufactured flavor and $ 755.65 million US dollar is the market estimate by estimation of the common in the year 2014.

 

2. North-America Region:

This exploration report incorporates the North American market for nourishment security testing utilized as a part of meat and poultry, dairy, handled sustenance, and organic products and vegetables. The North American market for sustenance wellbeing testing is anticipated to achieve USD 6.4 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 7.4% from 2015. North America is considered to have a standout amongst the most developed nourishment security programs that have been vivaciously executed over the locale. The sustenance wellbeing testing market in this area is very aggressive and the current market players are associated with the innovative work of innovation and administration to coming new nourishment security testing arrangements. The market is exceedingly unique and inclined to vacillation in cost, time, and testing arrangements. Indicative organizations in North America are likewise engaged with the advancement of innovations that can distinguish the nearness of the considerable number of contaminants in a single test.

 

3. Asia pacific:

 Asia-Pacific is probably going to be the quickest developing district with a gauge CAGR of 4% more than 2012-2017, because of the rising interest for sustenance security from customers, makers, and controllers. The most fast moving nation in Asia-Pacific is China, and this will be enhanced by the bigger client base. Australia has additionally been influenced seriously by pathogen incited foodborne sicknesses and has organized sustenance wellbeing testing. A few billion Euros were spent by European medicinal services framework as a result of ailments caused by contaminants.

 

Market structure:-

The UK sustenance industry has demonstrated versatility amid the monetary downturn, with the agro-nourishment division contributing £96.1 billion a year to the UK economy. And keep in mind that the aggregate estimation of UK sustenance and drink trades fell somewhat in 2012 to £18.2 billion, this was still £5.6 billion more than in 2005. The business additionally has aggressive plans to grow 20% by 2020. Quick innovations, particularly fast discovery packs, are utilized for sustenance security testing in handled nourishments. Overall distinctive directions have been set for prepared to-eat (RTE) items security testing. Handled nourishment items incorporate solidified items, snacks, bundled items, and so forth. Listeria and different pathogens, for example, Clostridium might be found in last RTE items. The worldwide sustenance security testing has been ruled by meat and poultry items attributable to the way that most extreme number of diseases has been because of meat and poultry items. The Asia-Pacific market is required to become because of the expansion in agribusiness deliver exchange supply. This is on the grounds that the sent out and imported items must be sheltered and guaranteed in like manner, in light of the sustenance security controls of that specific area. Nourishment Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS) set up another run to forestall defilement of meat and poultry items in butcher houses and preparing plants in light of HACCP sustenance security control framework. The expanded utilization of prepared sustenance, both in creating and created nations, is making a noteworthy open door for handled nourishment testing. Likewise, the defilement of the vast majority of the prepared nourishment happens from the handling apparatuses. Wasteful store network and sustenance tainting episodes are powering the development of the market.

Conclusion:-

In many countries, including some of the more populous ones, the relative prevalence of undernourishment will decline significantly with this approach. Fewer countries than at present will have high levels of undernourishment, none of them in the most populous class. The problem of undernourishment will tend to become lesser in terms of both absolute numbers affected and, even more, in relative terms, hence it will become more tractable through policy interventions, both national and international. Now that you have all the information you need on eating healthy, the most important action step you can do is to maintain this lifestyle choice as much as possible. Post intents when you need motivation from others. Keep a diary of your food choices on your blog or journal. Talk to other people when you are feeling tempted to indulge in unhealthy desserts.

 

 

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