GFSI Food Fraud Gap Analysis:

MSU Food Fraud Initiative

Michigan State University Professors, John Spink, PhD and Douglas Moyer, PhD, with the Food
Fraud Initiative provided a gap analysis for preventing food fraud.

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10 Food Fraud Compliance Standards for GFSI Compliance Gap Analysis:

 Conduct Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessment

 Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessment is written and documented

 Create a Food Fraud Prevention Strategy

 Food Fraud Prevention Strategy is written and documented

 Demonstrate Implementation

 Executive Level Sign-off and approval

 Food Fraud Incident Review Conducted Annually

 Method in place to review your incidents and general market incidents

 Addresses all types of Food Fraud

 Addresses all products incoming goods (e.g., ingredients) and outgoing goods (e.g., finished goods)

through to the consumer

Food Fraud is the deliberate and intentional substitution, addition, tampering, or misrepresentation of food, food
ingredients, or food packaging; or false or misleading statements made about a product, for economic gain.*
*     Michigan State University. Backgrounder: Defining the Public Health Threat of Food Fraud. (2011) www.foodfraudprevention.com