Learn how to perform a vulnerability assessment, download templates and tools, do our online training, find a laboratory, access links to public food fraud databases, view guidance documents and reports, get help with your food safety documents, speak to an expert.
- Food fraud online training
- Vulnerability assessment tools
- Review my vulnerability assessment
- Expert advice
- Guidance documents and reports
- Find a laboratory
- Public databases of food fraud incidents
1. Food fraud training at your fingertips
Our best selling food fraud training has helped thousands of food quality professionals to understand food fraud and learn how to meet the requirements of food safety standards, including BRC Issue 8, SQF Edition 9, FSSC 22000, AIB, IFS and others. Our online training is available any time, anywhere. Check it out today.2. Vulnerability assessment tools
Food Fraud Advisors’ Vulnerability Assessment Tools are Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets that make audit preparation a breeze. Download them today and create fast, auditor-friendly documents for vulnerability assessments.
Use the tools to:
- Learn how to do a vulnerability assessment
- Learn how different material characteristics affect risk
- Collect and store all relevant information in one place
- Create reports for audits
Instant downloads; start today and complete your first vulnerability assessment in less than one hour.
“It was very easy to use and very helpful. I wish I would’ve found this sooner. Food Fraud Advisor’s Assessment Tool helped me a great deal with getting a better understanding of a vulnerability assessments, the helpful hints throughout the assessment were amazing. I just had my BRC audit last week and the auditor praised me! All positive feedback I received.”
– Donna, QA and FS Manager, Catelli Foods Corp
3. Review my vulnerability assessment
Have a qualified food safety auditor review your vulnerability assessment and provide feedback.
4. Expert advice
Talk to one of our expert food scientists today.
Confidentiality assured. Click here for your free introductory consultation.5. Guidance documents and reports
- Learn how to perform vulnerability assessments with our non-nonsense guide: Vulnerability Assessments; What, Why How.
- Read about how the food industry copes with food fraud: https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/december-2019january-2020/reducing-the-risk-of-fraud-in-the-spice-industry/
- Introduction to food fraud in the fruit and veg sector: https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/augustseptember-2018/is-that-a-beet-or-a-banana-unwrapping-food-fraud-in-the-produce-industry/
- The Global Food Safety Initiative’s (GFSI) 2018 position on food fraud: Tackling Food Fraud Through Food Safety Management Systems (2018), https://mygfsi.com/2018/07/09/food-safety-challenge-to-2030-staying-on-track-with-safe-trade-2/
- USA Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) position on food fraud: A fact sheet which describes how the Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA) addresses economically motivated adulteration of food. Hint: find it in the ‘hazard analysis’ requirements, which refers to hazards that are ‘intentionally introduced for economic gain’. http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm334115.htm
- Guidance on intentional adulteration rules (USA) for food defense: https://foodsafetytech.com/feature_article/lessons-learned-from-intentional-adulteration-vulnerability-assessments-part-i/
- Learn about the language used for food fraud; find our introduction to food fraud terminology here
6. Find a laboratory
Food Fraud Advisors maintains a database of testing facilities that have capabilities in the areas of food authenticity, species verification, botanicals, supplements testing and general food testing, including food microbiology. We have no financial association with any laboratory and receive no financial incentives for our recommendations. Click here to request an independent recommendation. This is a free service.
7. Databases of food fraud incidences
Our list of the world’s best known food fraud databases:
- Decernis’ Food Fraud Database (formerly the US Pharmacopeial Convention (UPS) database)
- FoodChainID/Fera Horizon Scan
- European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/portal/
- US FDA Recalls and Food Safety Alerts http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/
For more information on each of these databases and how to use them, read our advice on how to investigate susceptibility to food fraud.
