Food Fraud Resource Center

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.

The U.S. Pharmacopeia Convention (USP) has developed Food Fraud Mitigation Guidance. Published in October 2016, the guidance provides tools to assist users in developing a personalized preventive management system to counter food fraud.