Post 30. People integrity

Many examples of food safety and fraud incidents have occurred because people have lacked the personal integrity to do the right thing. Integrity in people, organisational culture and in particular food safety culture are an essential element of food supply chain management. Some incidents of when things have gone wrong...

• 2008 Melamine adulteration of milk scandal - 298,000 babies sick in China
• 2009 Peanut Corporation of America - check out the video https://youtu.be/0QZ0YwMueY4
• Multiple incidents associated with illegal alcohol - check out our paper on the topic https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10071625

These are just a few examples of poor behaviour or poor business culture. People integrity together with product, process and data integrity are all essential elements of safe and legal food.  

Forensic auditing as part of forensic accounting is one example of a measure that is adopted in food supply chains to try to identify bad behaviour. This article considers how it can be used to address food fraud. Do check it out.