Events

• 2018 (March) - Edinburgh: First Conference of Food Standards Scotland on Fresh Thinking on Food
• 2017 (October) -  Dublin: Safeguarding the Food Chain - Protecting Authenticity and Integrity
• 2017 (June) - Berlin: BVL/European Commission, JRC Congress on Food Fraud
• 2017 (May) - Parma: Food Integrity 2017 Conference
• 2017 (April) - Québec: Conference Food Fraud - Global Understanding
• 2014 (October) - Rome: Conference on Food Fraud "A Joint effort to ensure the safety and integrity of our food"
• 2012 (February) - Brussels: Conference Combating Food-related Crime

Documents

• Council Conclusions on the role of law enforcement cooperation in combating food crime
• European Parliament's own initiative report on "the food crisis, fraud in the food chain and the control thereof"
• Council conclusions on setting the EU's priorities for the fight against serious and organised crime between 2014 and 2017
• In the wake of the horse meat scandal in February 2013, the Commission proposed a 5-point Action Plan, which included specific action directed at the issue at hand as well as longer term objectives.
• New training on new investigation/control techniques (fraud and internet sales) under the Better Training for Safer Food Initiative

Useful links

• JRC monthly food fraud summaries

Research in the Food Fraud area

• The OLEUM project
• The EU-funded Food Integrity project