Food Fraud Prevention / Food Microbiology and Food Safety (PDF)

The concepts in this book are based on the practical application experience and peer-reviewed journal publications of Dr. John Spink, who is the Director of the Food Fraud Initiative and an Assistant Professor in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. His vulnerability-reducing research focus started in 2006 with intellectual property rights counterfeiting, and then expanded to all types of product fraud. In 2013 his focus shifted primarily to food fraud. He is the most widely published author regarding food fraud prevention, with fundamental works such as the 2011 "Defining the Public Health Threat of Food Fraud," the 2013 "Defining the Types of Counterfeiters, Counterfeiting, and Offender Organizations," the 2016 "Introducing the Food Fraud Initial Screening model (FFIS)," the 2019 "Introducing the Food Fraud Prevention Cycle (FFPC)" and the 2019 "Food Fraud Prevention: Overview and Requirements to Address 'How to Start?' and 'How Much is Enough?'" Hisleadership positions include product fraud related activities such as with "ISO 22000 Food Safety" and "TC292 Security Management/ Fraud Countermeasures," GFSI Food Fraud Think Tank, and U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP). Global activities include engagements with the European Commission, INTERPOL and Operation Opson, Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), UK National Food Crime Unit (NFCU), New Zealand MPI, Codex Alimentarius, WHO/FAO, INFOSAN, the Codex Alimentarius Electronic Work Group on Food Fraud, Trinidad & Tobago Ministry of Agriculture, ISLI, AOAC, and served as an Advisor on Food Fraud to the Chinese National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA).