Food Fraud –a Joint Nordic Threat Assessment

Defining the public health threat of food fraud.

UNLABELLED 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 ...

Nordic Food Markets – a taste for competition

Joint Nordic Test Day Model: Evaluation Model

This paper is one of three papers describing the joint Nordic test day model for yield traits. The focus of this paper is on the evaluation models for Red Breeds, Holstein, and Jersey. Environmental effects and adjustment of heterogeneous variance are illustrated.

Using Fraud Patterns for Fraud Risk Assessment of E-services

Every year, e-service providers report losses of billions of dollars due to fraud. Despite their huge efforts in implementing sophisticated fraud detection systems on top of their e-services, fraud effects seem to be rather increasing than decreasing. As a result, fraud risk assessment has been introduced as a fundamental part of e-service providers’ prevention strategies. In particular, identi...

Deadly fraud – Food allergen substitution in the food chain

Food allergy, a significant public health concern in the developed world has a forensic context. Allergy related personal injury, fatality or criminal non-compliance with food law on the part of a food supplier are issues that have come before the UK courts. More recently substitution of peanuts for more expensive almonds has been discovered. Substitution, accidental or deliberate, subverts avo...