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Food Fraud Risk Information

Purchase an offline ‘snapshot’ of the database in an easy-to-search format by clicking the button below.

You will receive a link to download a Microsoft Excel file, which contains information from the Food Fraud Risk Information Database as it was on 30th June 2021.  It is an offline document, is not updated automatically and does not reflect any changes that have been made since that date.

Sources: The information in the Food Fraud Risk Information Database comes from hundreds of sources, with the number increasing all the time.  To keep the size of the database manageable, sources are not included.  However the authors are more than happy to provide sources to all genuine enquirers.

The information in the Excel workbook can be searched, sorted, copied, pasted and manipulated as with any other Excel workbook.  Users are encouraged to add their own information and notes to the document.

The contents of the online database is presented in a table, with one row for each ‘card’ of the database.  In the database, most cards correspond to a single food type.   The database currently contains more than seventy five thousand (75,000) words.

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Tools for Packaging Materials

What are you buying?

You are purchasing the right to download, populate, save and print the two (2) Microsoft Excel workbook files

  • Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Packaging Material Manufacturers
  • Threat Assessment Tool for Packaging Materials

created and published by Food Fraud Advisors © 2019.

You may make as many copies of the workbooks as you need for one packaging business in one geographical location.  Licence terms and conditions.

To use the Vulnerability Assessment Tool and Threat Assessment Tool you will need:

  • Microsoft Excel installed on this computer. For Macs, Excel 2011 or later works best, for Windows, Excel 2007 or later is best.
  • A basic understanding of packaging manufacturing and quality management systems.
  • Basic spreadsheet skills and familiarity with Microsoft Excel.

Questions?  Click here for frequently asked questions and their answers plus access to support

Buy them now, download them instantly and complete your vulnerability assessment and threat assessment documentation in less than one hour.

All prices are in US dollars.

Get both tools for US$59.00 (not sold separately)

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Vulnerability Assessment Tool (BRC Method) for food fraud

What are you buying?

You are purchasing the right to download, populate, save and print the spreadsheet file Vulnerability Assessment Tool for BRC, created and published by Food Fraud Advisors © 2015-2020 and made for food fraud vulnerability assessments.

You may make as many copies of the spreadsheet(s) as you need for one food business in one geographical location (usually a manufacturing site).  Licence terms and conditions.

Please note that many of the cells in the sheets are password protected, so you will not be able to edit the wording of the questions nor the automatically generated answers. To understand which parts are password protected, download our free trial version: Try it free

To use the Vulnerability Assessment Tool you will need:

  • Microsoft Excel installed on this computer.  For information about software compatibility click here.
  • A basic understanding of food manufacturing quality systems and food safety management systems.
  • Basic spreadsheet skills and familiarity with Microsoft Excel.

Questions?  Click here for frequently asked questions and their answers plus access to support

Buy it now, download it instantly and complete your first food fraud vulnerability assessment in less than one hour.

Price: US$59.00

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Vulnerability Assessment – one product group

Food Fraud Advisors will prepare a vulnerability assessment for one product or group of similar products manufactured at one site and containing up to 30 ingredients, using the method recommended by the Food Fraud Initiative of Michigan State University or the method recommended by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) for compliance with BRC Issue 7 and Issue 8.  You may use pseudonyms and code names to protect the identity of the food business and product names, although accurate descriptions of food items are required.

The scope of the assessment is vulnerability to economically motivated adulteration, substitution or dilution of the food ingredients or raw materials prior to receipt at the site of manufacture of the product. The assessment does not include vulnerabilities to adulteration or tampering that could occur on the site of manufacture of the product.

You will receive a document in Microsoft Word format that contains:

• the name of the product or product group
• the date of the assessment,
• the date that the assessment should be reviewed,
• the name of the person who prepared the assessment,
• page numbers and other standard document control features (can be edited by the purchaser),
• purpose and scope of the assessment,
• the estimate of the likelihood of economically motivated adulteration, substitution or dilution for the product group and each of its ingredients
• the estimate of the severity of impact of fraud on the product group (or estimate of likelihood of detection for each ingredient if BRC method is specified)
• a risk matrix with results marked in the relevant box
• a conclusion about the overall vulnerability of that product group (and each ingredient separately if the BRC method is specified)
• information showing how the estimates of likelihood and severity were reached.

The document is unprotected and can be edited, printed, copied, amended, re-used and saved by the purchaser.

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Review my vulnerability assessment

Are you ready for BRC Issue 8, SQF Edition 8?  Get practical advice and feedback about your food fraud vulnerability assessment from qualified, experienced Australian food safety experts and take the headache out of your audit preparation.  Send your vulnerability assessment to us and we will review it and provide feedback and suggestions for improvement.  Use pseudonyms or code names to protect the identity of the food business and products if desired.

When you purchase this service you will receive instructions for submitting your assessment.  Or you can simply email it to karen@foodfraudadvisors.com.

If you are comfortable speaking in the English language, include your telephone number and country dialing code so that Karen can talk to you about your document.  Feedback will also be provided by email.

Got questions?  Just ask, we are here to help!
Ask Karen a question