adulteration | Food Engineering

How Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Can Combat Honey Fraud

Peeter Matson Taavi Tull Sigrid Hampartsoumian Léa Heintz

September 3, 2024

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.

Food Fraud

How sweet—or potent—is your honey?

While adulterated honey can have unreported sugar added, that’s not the only thing that’s been found in the sweetener

Wayne Labs

January 13, 2022

Honey can be a vehicle of food fraud or contain illegal ingredients

FE 2020 Annual Plant Construction Survey

2020 Annual Plant Construction Survey: Part 3

FSMA: Getting to the security aspects of food

You’d think FSMA is a done-deal, but not so much for food defense and intentional adulteration, which still need attention in facility design

Wayne Labs

June 3, 2020

While we've looked at the key issues - including COVID-19 - facing food processors and A&E/Cs this year in FE's 2020 Annual Plant Construction Survey, there's a lot more to discuss.

Regulatory Watch

Final IA supplemental draft guidance released

Sharon Spielman

April 6, 2020

The FDA has released its third and final supplemental draft guidance to support compliance with the Intentional Adulteration Rule under FSMA.

TECH FLASH

New tool to win the food fraud battle

EMAlert seeks to save manufacturers from economically motivated adulteration.

Jeremy Gerrard

April 26, 2016

The Grocery Manufacturers Association and Battelle are partnering to provide a new secure, intuitive web-based software tool.

Food Safety

Are you ready for the FSMA final rules?

Only one of seven FSMA final rules remains in limbo. Fortunately, FDA has stated it will teach while determining compliance.

Wayne Labs

April 25, 2016

If you feel your company is not completely ready for FSMA, you’re not alone.

USDA leads Sub-Saharan Africa trade mission to expand food export opportunities

TECH FLASH

Interpol seizes largest haul of fake food and beverages

More than 11,000 tonnes and 1 million liter of hazardous fake food and drink were nabbed.

Jeremy Gerrard

April 13, 2016

The haul included Sundanese sugar contaminated with fertilizer and Italian olives painted with copper sulphate solutions.

Engineering R&D

Surgical knife turned food fraud investigator

With a little ingenuity, mass spectrometry technology has been teamed up with a surgical knife and proprietary software to find fraudulent food and/or beverages.

Wayne Labs

March 3, 2016

Sometimes, ingenious devices come about when seemingly disparate technologies are combined to create a new technology or instrument.