To get the most out of being a Member,
Food consultancy company The Acheson Group (TAG) have blogged about the current risk of corporate "identity theft" scams in the US food industry. You can read the full blog here. TAG provide generic mitigation advice in their blog, and promote…
Agavins are a mixture of polysaccharides of various chain lengths, extracted from agave, which are gaining increasing popularity as prebiotic food supplements. Their global market is booming.
In this survey (open access) researchers tested 12…
In this survey (open access) researchers tested 12…
"Thanks Sarah. Good to hear from you - I had forgotten you were a member.
It gets shared with UK policy-makers - FSA are a platinum FAN partners, they look at this (and the original reports, plus other insight) - it all feeds into their digital…"
It gets shared with UK policy-makers - FSA are a platinum FAN partners, they look at this (and the original reports, plus other insight) - it all feeds into their digital…"
"Thank you.
I recommend you share this with the media as the public / political environment is telling the general public import checks are top heavy and a waste of money. It was last week on the Farming program BBC 4 just before 6am I heard this…"
I recommend you share this with the media as the public / political environment is telling the general public import checks are top heavy and a waste of money. It was last week on the Farming program BBC 4 just before 6am I heard this…"
Rarely, in the many studies verifying olive oil authenticity, is it challenged whether the PDO regulatory specifications used as authentication benchmarks are still valid.
This review (open access) examines and challenges the topic. The authors…
This review (open access) examines and challenges the topic. The authors…
The Food and Agriculture Office (FAO) of the United Nations & World Health Organisation have relaunched the promotion of their database of GM foods.
This public database is primarily intended as a search-tool for safety assessments of authorised GM…
This public database is primarily intended as a search-tool for safety assessments of authorised GM…
This monthly highlights report has been produced for FAN members by one of our Partner organisations, iComplai.
The report is an AI-generated prioritised digest. It is blended from online regulatory and media reports of food fraud incidents and…
The report is an AI-generated prioritised digest. It is blended from online regulatory and media reports of food fraud incidents and…
The Food Fraud Prevention Think Tank (Professor John Spink's group at Michigan State University) is seeking views on the use of the term "illicit" in the context of food fraud. This has an impact on international standardisation, as well as the…
Seeds are an essential input into organically-certified agriculture but their specification is sometimes unclear and their verification difficult. They must be produced under organic (or at least sustainable) conditions, for a minimum of one…
There is already a “failure to prevent fraud” offence in the UK Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA). If a senior manager commits an offence then the company/organisations also commits the offence in the eyes of the law. A…
The Authenticity Methodology Working Group (AMWG) evaluates scientific research developed within the UK Department of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs’ Food Authenticity Research Programme, ensuring methods developed are robust and advising on the…
In this study (open access), three insect species approved for human consumption in the European Union (Acheta domesticus, Locusta migratoria, Tenebrio molitor), along with six additional species with potential for legitimate or fraudulent use in…
This study (open access) set out to assess the use of portable Near Infra-Red (NIR) spectroscopy as a screening tool for spice authentication, with subsequent confirmation by FT-IR The authors recommend pre-defined decision points, meaning that…
The latest EU Agri-Food Suspicions report, for April 2026, has been published here. FAN produce a rolling 3-month graphic to visualise the relative prevalence and trends in the main issues. I always read through the full report to pick out any…
Comments
Hi Steve. I hope it's all going well. Congratulations on winning the co-ordinators' role. I'm reminded of a Groucho Marx quote - "I wouldn't want to join the sort of club that would accept someone like me as a member ...." John