Food Fraud Resource Center

This presentation was shared with the ASTA Spice Integrity Council on October 17, 2023, by Karen Everstine of FoodChain ID. The presentation provides an overview of FoodChain ID's Food Fraud Database and trends in fraud for spices and herbs. The presentation also outlines the HorizonScan Database, which compiles global regulatory alerts on hazards in foods such as spices and herbs.

This guidance covers the identification and prevention of economically motivated adulteration in spices. It includes legal and regulatory definitions of adulteration, EMA prevention strategies, a decision tree to identify vulnerabilities and verification and detection of fraud in raw spice materials.