25^th International Conference on Food Fraud & Safety November 29-30, 2021 Vancouver, Canada

Food Defense is the protection of food products from intentional contamination or adulteration by biological, chemical, physical, or radiological agents introduced for the purpose of causing harm. It addresses additional concerns including physical, personnel and operational security.

COVID-19 resulted in the movement restrictions of workers, changes in demand of consumers, closure of food production facilities, restricted food trade policies, and financial pressures in food supply chain.  Food protectionist policies should be avoided to prevent an increase in food price

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.

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 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.

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) 

Quality is a measure of the level of magnificence or level of worthiness by the buyer. Nourishment quality is the arrangement of buyer prerequisites, for example, security, item, dietary and tangible. This incorporates outside elements, for example, measure, shape, shading, consistency, flavor and surface. 

Sustenance quality is an essential nourishment producing necessity, since sustenance shoppers are vulnerable to any sort of sullying that may happen amid assembling process. Ensure that the sustenance preparing condition is spotless keeping in mind the end goal to deliver the most secure conceivable nourishment for the purchaser. The essential parts of sustenance quality are: nourishment wellbeing, tangible attributes and wholesome esteem. Nutritive esteem is one of the essential qualities, which is presently considered by the purchasers as a quality characteristic. Wellbeing of sustenance is a fundamental necessity of nourishment quality.

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 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.

Attiring global food security and restoring demands on the environment is the greatest challenge faced by mankind. By the time 2050 at least nine Billion people need food, and increasing incomes and urbanization will inevitably lead to dietary revamp. The food security competitiveness will increasingly fringe the triple burden of malnutrition– under nutrition, obesity and deficiencies in micronutrient. The importance of the food security issues has led to huge scientific strides which forwards and making it difficult to keep up with the rapidly expanding value of scientific research and technology. Policies to implement global and local food security  needs to be actualize  and decision makers should have to make difficult choices to ameliorate the food security of local people against the limelight of drastic global changes. For some, feeding the world ethically means ensuring universal access to what is needed nutritionally for human survival and mitigating hunger. For others, it is securing food of sufficient quantity and quality for a decent life, a healthy life, or even a high quality of life. Still others widen the lens to include the welfare and rights of agricultural workers and farmers, the environment, or the well-being of nonhuman animals. And still others focus on protecting choice in the marketplace or on respecting cultural and national traditions and ways of life. The challenge for ethically acceptable global food security is to find a path forward, where tangible progress on ethical issues and disagreements in global food policy and practice is possible even in the absence of consensus about relevant values and permissible means.

The diverse types of emulsifier lecithin – powder, two distinctive fixation fluids, granular and powder lecithin. Nourishment added substances will be substances added to sustenance to protect flavor or improve its taste, appearance, or different characteristics. A few added substances have been utilized for a considerable length of time; for instance, saving nourishment by pickling (with vinegar), salting, likewise with bacon, protecting desserts or utilizing sulfur dioxide similarly as with wines. With the coming of prepared nourishments in the second 50% of the twentieth century, numerous more added substances have been presented, of both characteristic and fake cause. Sustenance added substances likewise incorporate substances that might be acquainted with nourishment in a roundabout way (called "aberrant added substances") in the assembling procedure, through bundling, or amid capacity or transport

Food waste or nourishment misfortune is nourishment that is disposed of or lost uneaten. The reasons for nourishment waste or misfortune are various and happen at the phases of creating, handling, retailing and devouring. Worldwide nourishment misfortune and waste add up to between 33% and one-portion of all sustenance delivered. Misfortune and wastage happen at all phases of the sustenance store network or esteem chain. In low-wage nations, most misfortune happens amid generation, while in created nations much nourishment – around 100 kilograms for every individual every year – is squandered at the utilization arrange.

As halfway noted in the definition coming from the 1996 FAO World Food Summit, nourishment security is in a general sense an issue of access to nourishment. For most, nourishment moderateness is then a key component, incorporating the cost of nourishment with the measure of discretionary cashflow to spend on it. On the off chance that costs rise quicker than earnings, nourishment instability can increment. So also, physical access might be troublesome in certain spots. Distribution in the public arena is a further issue and can take a scope of structures because of fluctuated reasons. For example, in certain societies, men eat before ladies; help offices and crisis alleviation associations need to choose needs for who gets nourishment and when; and nourishment can be utilized as a political 'weapon' to impact or even oppress segments of society. Inclination is the third significant component of Access. Inclinations can be dictated by social and strict settings, taste and appearance, comfort and cooking ability, wellbeing and moral concerns, and furthermore showcasing and retail methodologies. Albeit safe and healthfully agreeable, eating nourishment we don't lean toward can have mental effect, undermining in general prosperity. What exactly degree should inclination consider in nourishment security discusses? How does get to meddle with other nourishment security measurements to understand the SDGs.

Nourishment use is regularly just interpreted as meaning the physiological dietary benefit of nourishment. While consumes less calories should be healthfully adjusted and adequate in amount, nourishments likewise should be protected: free from poisons and different contaminants, and from pathogens and parasites. While numerous ultra-prepared nourishments fulfill these conditions, abundance utilization of such 'void calories' can likewise be named 'perilous', contributing as it does to overweight and stoutness, and attendant eating regimen related maladies. Nourishment utilization ought to be adequate in assortment, quality and amount to maintain a strategic distance from poor physical and psychological wellness results related with hunger, hindering, squandering and corpulence. At long last, the social elements of nourishment are frequently ignored in nourishment security discusses. These are regularly profoundly inserted in social standards, and add to thoughts of social-and self-personality, connection and family. Nourishment regularly serves genuine or emblematic capacity in strict or social service; absence of the correct kinds of nourishment for such capacities undermines the social capacity. In what capacity should exchange offs between healthy benefit, social worth and sanitation be assessed and tended to? How do these three components interface with different elements of nourishment security and effect the attractive changes of nourishment frameworks.

In an era of scarcity it is becoming increasingly important to address production and consumption jointly because of the linkages between the two. The transition to a more sustainable  ones. It is equally important to address demand-side issues, and to reduce the present unsustainable levels of consumption. Therefore, research on behavioral or structural changes in food systems.