Food Fraud Resource Center

This document covers an American Spice Trade Association Self-Regulation Program for the Enforcement of the Food and Drug Administration’s Regulations Regarding Spices. It includes an introduction, information on the regulation of spices by FDA, the ASTA Self-Enforcement Program, ASTA's policy on anti-trust and competitive practices, spice list, etc.

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.