At the past two IAFP annual meetings, the food defense symposia focused on a combination of innovative tools and programs available for industry and regulatory agencies worldwide to evaluate our systems and improve our readiness for a possible intentional agroterrorism attack. Now is the time to expand our focus to include a dialogue on other intentional attacks on our food systems related to fraud, counterfeiting and tampering that can also have significant public health outcomes along with the economic risk. The global food supply chain is becoming increasingly complex while the economic and political fragility of the world marketplace in increasing. Food fraud is growing in attention as an emerging risk, and is occurring across multiple commodities and supply chain pathways. This symposium will showcase some current activities related to food fraud tracking, insight from regulators on issues of diverted products, hijacked trucks and other intentional activities and perspectives and experiences from the processing and retail industries related to food fraud. Please join with us to raise your awareness of intentional food fraud, the possible impact to your organization, and to understand where you can get more information on this timely topic.

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