| Autor: |
Joenperä J; Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland., Lundén J; Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
International journal of environmental health research [Int J Environ Health Res] 2024 May; Vol. 34 (5), pp. 2230-2247. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 19. |
| DOI: |
10.1080/09603123.2023.2236977 |
| Abstrakt: |
We studied food fraud detection and the reporting of suspected cases using a questionnaire survey and interviews with Finnish food control officers (FCOs). In total, 95 FCOs responded to the questionnaire, and 17 were interviewed. We found that even though many respondents had either suspected (69.2%) or detected (43.4%) food fraud or other food-related crime during the past five years, 46.8% thought they had no realistic chance of detecting food fraud during inspections. Challenges raised by the FCOs we interviewed included inadequate resources (8/17) and difficulties in inspecting documents or establishing their authenticity (14/17). Moreover, many interviewees highlighted difficulties in assessing whether to inform the police about a suspected case (7/17), and 62% (18/29) of respondents who had detected fraud had not reported it to the police. Training in food fraud detection, increased resources and guidelines on reporting suspected food fraud would improve food fraud detection and harmonize reporting. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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