Public/institutional online databases
Coverage: EU
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The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) is a vital tool established by the European Union to ensure the swift exchange of information regarding food and feed safety among member countries. Its primary purpose is to enable immediate actions by food safety authorities when risks to public health are identified within the food chain.
Key Features of RASFF:
- Timely Information Exchange: RASFF facilitates rapid communication between member states, the European Commission, and other stakeholders, ensuring that health risks from food or feed are promptly addressed.
- 24/7 Operation: The system operates around the clock, guaranteeing that urgent notifications are disseminated and acted upon efficiently.
- Public Access via RASFF Window: While detailed access is limited to member authorities and the European Commission, the RASFF Window provides public access to summary information about recent notifications, enhancing transparency and consumer awareness.
- Legal Foundation: RASFF is grounded in Article 50 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, commonly known as the General Food Law, which outlines its scope and procedures.
Through RASFF, numerous food safety hazards are mitigated before they can impact consumers, reinforcing the EU’s commitment to maintaining one of the highest food safety standards globally.
Coverage: EU
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Operation OPSON is a Europol INTERPOL joint operation targeting fake and substandard food and beverages. The operation aims to dismantle organized crime networks involved in food fraud and protect public health. Each iteration of Operation OPSON results in detailed reports summarizing the findings, seizures, and actions taken during the operation.
Coverage: EU
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MEDISYS is a media monitoring system providing event-based surveillance to rapidly identify potential public health threats using information from media reports. The information processed by MEDISYS is derived from the Europe Media Monitor (EMM), which was developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Filters can be put in place to target a specific topic within the media reports. The filters customized for Food Fraud were built at WFSR. MEDISYS-FF only collects those articles with interest to the domain of Food Fraud. A dashboard was built to display information about these articles, like countries of origin, top keywords and publication dates. Note: This dashboard only displays meta data, not the articles themselves.
Coverage: Global
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Purpose of the Database
The FoodChain ID Food Fraud Database is designed to systematically collect and analyze publicly available data on food fraud incidents, supporting food safety and fraud mitigation efforts. It helps regulatory agencies, industry professionals, and food businesses assess risks, enhance vulnerability assessments, and create effective mitigation strategies.
Key Features and Data
Comprehensive Coverage: Contains 15,575 records of food fraud incidents, covering data from 1980 to 2022.
Types of Data Collected: The database includes incident records (actual fraud cases), inference records (suggested fraud risks), method records (detection techniques), and surveillance records (market testing results).
Sources of Information: Extracted from scientific literature, media reports, regulatory documents, trade associations, and judicial records.
Most Commonly Affected Ingredients: The highest number of fraud incidents involved fluid cow’s milk, extra virgin olive oil, honey, beef, and chili powder.
Most Common Adulteration Methods:
Dilution/Substitution (e.g., replacing high-value ingredients with cheaper ones like olive oil adulterated with other oils).
Artificial Enhancement (e.g., adding colorants like Sudan dyes in spices).
Fraudulent Labeling (e.g., misrepresenting geographical origin or organic status).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X24000115
Coverage: Global
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The International Food Safety and Quality Network (IFSQN) is a global community dedicated to supporting food safety professionals in implementing, operating, and continually improving food safety management systems. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Ramsbottom, United Kingdom, IFSQN offers a platform for peer-to-peer collaboration, with its centerpiece being a thriving discussion forum. Members engage in discussions on various topics, including Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standards such as BRC, SQF, FSSC 22000, and IFS.
While IFSQN does not maintain a centralized database of food safety incidents, it provides a wealth of resources through its forums, articles, blogs, webinars, and training courses. These resources are designed to assist food safety professionals in sharing knowledge, discussing challenges, and developing effective strategies to ensure food safety and quality.
Coverage: Global
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FOODAKAI analyzes food incidents and recalls globally, delivering insights to the food industry about potential hazards in raw materials, ingredients and products.
FOODAKAI offers an intelligent online system that minimizes food safety risks by strategically gathering, processing and delivering live food safety data and analytics in an easy, fast and cost-effective way.
Coverage: Global
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Safety HUD is a monitoring tool developed by Mérieux NutriSciences to help food operators assess risks related to food fraud and safety alerts worldwide. It is designed to support compliance with international food safety standards such as BRC (British Retail Consortium) and IFS (International Featured Standards).
Key Features
- Live Updates on food safety and fraud incidents globally.
- Daily Monitoring of 100+ official agencies and multiple media sources in 58 countries (for food) and 43 countries (for food contact materials).
- Interactive Dashboard to track:
- Food fraud & safety alerts
- Emerging issues
- Global safety trends
- Fraud vulnerability rates
- Risk Assessment Tools including:
- Alerts & statistics
- Mapping of incidents
- Trends analysis
- Mitigation strategies & testing recommendations
- Custom Alerts & Filtering Options to tailor insights based on specific needs.
https://regulatory.mxns.com/sites/default/files/img/mxns_safetyhud_br1320_2_eng.pdf
Coverage: USA
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FoodSHIELD is a web-based system for communication, coordination, education, and training among the USA food and agriculture sectors. This secure system allows public health and food regulatory officials at the local, state, and federal levels across the USA to work together. It also helps communicate food safety information among other government agencies.
Coverage: USA
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Information gathered from press releases and other public notices about certain recalls of FDA-regulated products.
Coverage: USA
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online database of food fraud incidences and emerging threats, organised by food type
Project-specific databases
Database: IsoFoodTrack: Database for Food Authenticity and Traceability
IsoFoodTrack, a key resource in this field, provides a comprehensive database of isotopic, elemental composition and other data along with detailed metadata on commonly adulterated foods, aiding in the accurate verification of their authenticity and geographical origin.
The main objective of the PhasmaFOOD is to design and implement a multi-target food sensitive mini-portable system for on-the-spot food quality sensing and shelf-life prediction. The PhasmaFOOD miniaturized smart integrated system will be able to detect food hazards, spoilage -including early signs of spoilage-, and food fraud through heterogeneous micro-scale photonics. The connected device will be integrated with a parameterized, knowledge-based, software architecture for on-the-spot food quality sensing and shelf-life prediction.
The FOOD 2030 Online Platform is a common platform for all projects, partnerships, networks, and living labs working on transforming the food system for the benefit of the people and the planet.
It collects resources, toolkits, projects, labs and more to increase your knowledge and expand your network on sustainable food system transformation.
The EU-FarmBook platform is currently undergoing active development, and users can anticipate numerous enhancements in the future, including significant advancements fuelled by AI technology.
EU-FarmBook is a Horizon Europe project that is working at regional, national, and European (EU) levels to build an Online Platform. Gathering and sharing agriculture and forestry knowledge.
EU-FarmBook is the answer to real needs of farmers, foresters and advisors. The Horizon Europe project offers an interactive, multi-lingual meeting place for agriculture and forestry communities, giving access to trustworthy knowledge objects according to findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data principles. EU-FarmBook users can interact and explore innovative ways to solve their daily challenges.
THEROS tools/solutions specific databases
EuroCrops is a dataset collection combining all publicly available self-declared crop reporting datasets from countries of the European Union. The project is funded by the German Space Agency at DLR on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK).
In the context of Theros an existing database is Eurocrops, is a dataset collection combining all publicly available self-declared crop reporting datasets from countries of the European Union. It was used for both it’s field boundaries and also for the crop declaration information.
