Our Food Fraud Database Expert, Karen Everstine, PhD MPH, Senior Manager Scientific Affairs, answers questions around the FDA’s Intentional Adulteration Rule and your facility’s GFSI Compliance

Question 1: Is food fraud addressed in the FDA’s Intentional Adulteration rule (“Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration”)? 

Food fraud, or what the FDA calls “economically motivated adulteration” (EMA), is certainly an intentional act. However, recent U.S. regulations for food fraud/EMA are outlined in the Preventive Controls (PC) rules (“Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food” and “Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals”) and not in the Intentional Adulteration (IA) Rule. FDA indicated that... LEARN MORE  

Question 2: If my facility includes food fraud/EMA in our hazard analysis, will we be compliant with global food fraud requirements? 

Addressing food fraud/EMA only in your hazard analysis is not sufficient for GFSI compliance. Therefore, if your facility needs to be GFSI compliant, ... LEARN MORE  

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