Economically motivated food fraud and adulteration in China: An analysis based on 1553 media reports

Zhang, Wenjing; Xue, Jianhong

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2016.03.004

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“…Fourteen percent of respondents are occasionally concerned about them through casual conversation or via social media, while 28% of respondents are not concerned about it. Existing research also shows that a growing concern is the introduction of hazards by deliberate human actions known as food fraud or economically motivated adulteration (Everstine et al, 2013;Moore et al, 2012;Tähkäpää et al, 2015; Zhang & Xue, 2016). In addition, when our survey respondents were asked about unsafe food reports, most said they know which grains are unsafe through reports about unsafe food events and thus to avoid them.…”

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Consumer anxieties about food grain safety in China

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Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. Abstract: China has a long history of eating staple plant foods which are mainly derived from food grains, especially rice and wheat. Food grain safety has been a worrying challenge on health and nutrition grounds in China, although evidence clearly suggests that expanding agricultural production is linked to reducing undernourishment. The focus of this study is to investigate consumers' anxieties about food grain safety in China. The nature and extent of consumer anxieties about grain safety, the cause of these anxieties, and possible ways to relieve anxiety are empirically analyzed. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 142 grain consumers in 29 provinces of China, in both rural and urban areas, during 2016. The results show that consumers are worried about the production and processing safety of food grains and genetically modified cereals and that the causes of anxiety are varied. Anxiety is amplified by social media reports of food scandals, polluted ecological environments, the high incidence of food-related chronic diseases and cancer, concerns about food system governance and lack of knowledge and ability to identify grain quality. Consumers seek to relieve their anxiety by identifying grain quality themselves, choosing foreign grains and paying close attention to reports about unsafe food. These findings have important implications for future programs aimed at improving consumer confidence about grain safety.

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confidence: 92%

“…However, only a limited number of cases were actually reported. For example, grain-based food items involved in fraud and adulteration account for less than 23percent of 1553 food cases (Zhang & Xue, 2016). But a lack of reports does not mean that few events happen.…”

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“…Several databases exist that classify food fraud and adulteration types, including the USP Food Fraud Database, the Economically Motivated Adulteration (EMA) Incidents Database, and the European Union Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF; Manning, ; Moyer et al., ; Zhang & Xue, ). This study utilized the EMA Incidents Database, which defines the following food fraud and adulteration types: intentional distribution of contaminated products, artificial enhancement, counterfeiting, substitution, mislabeling, dilution, transshipment/origin masking, and theft and resale.…”

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Economically Motivated Food Fraud and Adulteration in Brazil: Incidents and Alternatives to Minimize Occurrence

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“…However, food adulteration has become more sophisticated in the recent years. Many cases have also been reported in other countries such as China, for example (Zhang & Xue, 2016). A very common problem is the adulteration of milk by adding substances such as water, sodium chloride, caustic soda, formaldehyde, and so on, that can mask or preserve milk properties as cryoscopy point, acidity, pH, as shown by Furtado & Vilela (1996).…”

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Results from portable and of low cost equipment developed for detection of milk adulterations

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This work presents the results of a device, MilkTech, developed to detect milk tampering, based on electrical measurements. The device indicates possible frauds by water, sodium chloride, caustic soda, ethyl alcohol and sodium bicarbonate. The advantages in relation to traditional methods are portability, low cost and detection of mixed frauds. The experiments were conducted in dairy plants at Governador Valadares, in Brazil. The results were compared with cryoscopy and chloride tests. It is demonstrated there is high correlation between MilkTech and Cryoscopy. For instance, the detection limit of the equipment for water addition with the set of analyzed data was 0.78% with precision of 1.1%. Adulterations with sodium chloride, caustic soda, ethyl alcohol and sodium bicarbonate are detected qualitatively, even when added with water, and MilkTech indicates "SUSPECT" milk.

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Economically motivated food fraud and adulteration in China: An analysis based on 1553 media reports

Cited by 117 publications

References 22 publications

Consumer anxieties about food grain safety in China

Consumer anxieties about food grain safety in China

Economically Motivated Food Fraud and Adulteration in Brazil: Incidents and Alternatives to Minimize Occurrence

Results from portable and of low cost equipment developed for detection of milk adulterations

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