The high value of honey and perceived cachet surrounding its provenance makes it a vulnerable target, whether through fraudsters claiming false geographical origin, declaring false botanical variety or diluting it with cheaper sugar syrups.

Fraudulent practices can seek to take advantage of the premium prices associated with organic products.

While it has often been said you can’t test quality into a product, nevertheless, a good testing program can minimize the severity of a recall.

Implementing blockchain technology needs some more time to gestate.

Beyond the normal process measurements needed to check that production is on track, analytical instrumentation can track important variables that can keep difficult-to-control processes on track.

Advancements in food authenticity testing and increases in food fraud are influencing the global market growth of testing services.

A blockchain software solution by UNISOT could help with traceability and stabilization of the food economy.

Severin Weiss, CEO of SpecPage and an expert in integrated software process solutions for recipe-based food and beverage processors, thinks PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) are two sets of tools that can help food processors avoid using fraudulent ingredients from less-than-scrupulous suppliers.