Tag: Intentional adulteration

Conservative estimates place the global impact of food fraud, a major form of adulteration, at between $10 and $40 billion annually. Adulteration involves intentionally debasing the quality of a product, often for illegal profit, and is not limited to food, extending to medicine, fuel, and other consumer goods.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), food defense is the effort to protect food from intentional adulteration from acts intended to cause wide-scale harm. This focus on malicious intent is what differentiates it from traditional food safety and helps address the question: **what are some common food defense threats** facing the modern food supply chain.