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Food Fraud Prevention: Policy, Strategy, and Decision-Making – Implementation Steps for a Government Agency or Industry

CHIMIA, 2016
This paper addresses the role of governments, industry, academics, and non-governmental organizations in Food Fraud prevention. Before providing strategic concepts for governments and authorities, definitions of Food Fraud are reviewed and ...
John Spink, Neal D. Fortin, Douglas C. Moyer, Hong Miao, Yongning Wu   +4 more
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How Do Spillover Effects Influence the Food Safety Strategies of Companies? New Orientation of Regulations for Food Safety

Foods, 2021
The food safety strategies of companies are a key point in the reduction of food safety risks. In order to encourage the evolution of food safety strategies of companies from food fraud to safety investment, this study builds an evolutionary game model ...
Yangchen Xue, Xianhui Geng, Emmanuel Kiprop, Miao Hong   +3 more
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Application of handheld NIR spectrometer for simultaneous identification and quantification of quality parameters in intact mango fruits

Smart Agricultural Technology, 2023
: There are several varieties of mango fruits, and the most important quality indicators for determining mango maturity are pH and total soluble solids (TSS).
Francis Padi Lamptey, Ernest Teye, Ernest Ekow Abano, Charles L.Y. Amuah   +3 more
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Food fraud in selected sub-Saharan Africa countries: a wake-up call to national regulatory bodies to support enforcement and food safety

Frontiers in Food Science and Technology
Africa is projected to have 2.4 billion people by 2050 and provision of healthy and nutritious diets is one of the challenges facing food systems. Food fraud is an act of deliberate adulteration and counterfeiting of food ingredients and commodities at ...
Joshua M. Njiru, Evalyne Njeru, Jacqueline Kang’iri, Isabella Lunani, Henry Rotich, Geoffrey Muriira, Collins Tombito, Evans N. Nyaboga   +7 more
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Food Fraud Conceptualization: An Exploratory Study with Portuguese Consumers

Journal of Food Protection
Food fraud refers to deceptive practices conducted for economic gain, and incidents of such fraud are often reported in the media and scientific literature. However, little is known about how European consumers perceive food fraud. To address this gap, a
Maria João Costa, Isabel Sousa, Ana Pinto Moura, José A. Teixeira, Luís Miguel Cunha   +4 more
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Food integrity culture in food businesses in view of organizational and employees' demographic characteristics

NFS Journal, 2023
Scope and approach: The prevailing food integrity culture of four Belgian food companies was assessed through a validated method triangulation. The relation between the perceived food integrity climate, the performed food integrity and the companies ...
Waeel Salih Alrobaish, Peter Vlerick, Liesbeth Jacxsens   +2 more
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Carcass Composition, Meat Quality and Sensory Quality of Gentile di Puglia Light Lambs: Effects of Dietary Supplementation with Oregano and Linseed

Animals, 2021
There is a growing demand by the modern consumer for meat containing less fat and lower levels of saturated fatty acids, which are considered to increase the risk of coronary heart disease.
Giuseppe Scarpa, Simona Tarricone, Marco Ragni   +2 more
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Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
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FOOD FRAUD INCIDENTS: FINDINGS FROM THE LATEST RAPID ALERT SYSTEM FOR FOOD AND FEED (RASFF) REPORT [PDF]

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2020
Food fraud remains an ever-existing issue, and especially in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis. Along with the recession that followed this pandemics, as well as lacking food supplies in some regions, criminal organizations around the world are ...
Silviu Ionuţ BEIA, Mariana BRAN, Irina PETRESCU, Violeta Elena BEIA, Mihai DINU   +4 more
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B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné, Jill Hanley, Élise Bourgeois‐Guérin, Pénélope Boudreault   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source