Understanding and Combating Food Fraud
The goal of food fraud is economic gain. It differs from intentional contamination but could pose a public health risk. The behavioral sciences and criminology offer tools to deter food fraud.
Food fraud is a collective term used to encompass 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 (Spink and Moyer, 2011a). The types of fraud include adulteration, tampering, overrun, theft, diversion, simulation, and counterfeiting (Spink and Moyer, 2011b).
Food-related fraud is not new. Most early food laws and codes had a major focus o…
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