Economically motivated adulteration (EMA) is a threat to the integrity of the food supply chain, with potential impacts ranging from loss of consumer trust, to brand reputation damage, to food safety.  With the increasingly global and dynamic nature of today’s food supply chain, an improved understanding of EMA and maturation of approaches to assess and combat EMA are critical to modern food safety and defense.  Pulling from a combination of industry and academic experience, this session focuses on providing a clear understanding of what EMA is and is not (e.g., how does EMA differ from food fraud?); discussing how EMA incidents can be captured and cataloged, in order to improve awareness of events; presenting survey results that capture industry perspectives on factors affecting EMA; and discussion of approaches to assess EMA vulnerabilities, including validation results using historical data.

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