FOOD CRIME INVESTIGATION!

 Did you ever think about all of the food is not safe? then yes it is not safe if you are not aware! SO BEWARE what you eat...or ELSE! 

The reasons about this food crimes incident are the food ingredients, or food packaging; or false or misleading statements made about a product, for economic gain. The cause of the incident needs to be taken into consideration. Food safety focuses on the unintentional contamination of food by known ingredients, organisms, mishandling, or processing. Food crime and food safety are very similar in that both can lead to public health risks. Considering the cause of the incident, food defense is a collective term that encompasses preventing and recovering from an intentional and deliberate contamination or tampering of food, motivated by either economic gain or public health harm.

Considering the cause of the incident, food quality focuses on the unintentional spoilage or deterioration of food that only results in economic loss, such as an unsalable or downgraded product.  If a food quality incident leads to a product that is harmful, then, although the cause is unintentional, the effect makes it a food safety incident. Food protection is an overall concept that includes prevention, intervention, and response for incidents in food quality, food safety, food fraud, and food defense.  Food crime is not a new problem, but quantifying the economic or public health impact of food crime remains difficult; the challenges are similar to other measures of crime. While seizure data is anecdotal and may only reflect crime prevention tactics, an overwhelming set of incidents and case studies indicates that food crime is a growing trend. Globalization, consolidation of manufacturing, urbanization, and other large-scale trends may provide insights to why food crime is growing.

Existing research on product fraud and counterfeiting have defined seven distinct types of food fraud. These fraudulent incidents include: adulteration, tampering, over-run, theft, diversion, simulation, and counterfeiting. which an example of Melamine added to milk, Changed expiry information, product up-labeling, etc., Relief food redirected to markets where aid is not required, Copies of popular foods not produced with same food safety assurances.

If we had our laboratory, we always first clean and sanitize the preparation table to avoid contamination. we wash and rinse all the things we are going to use especially the ingredients that we are going to cook. And to avoid contamination of foods, we had practiced that in every color coding of the chopping board should not use in other ingredients; green only for vegetables, red for raw pork or beef, yellow for poultry, blue for seafoods, brown for cooked meat and white for cheese and etc. If food is not handled properly then in other words it does not require proper hygiene and sanitation that may lead to harm to people. This can be considered as Food Crime. Food Crime is an act of committing violation in terms of food safety. Manufacturing or selling substandard, unhygienic or poisonous food is a CRIME! 

Now a days, money is all that matters over the health of the people. They just cook all they want even if there is no proper food handling or sanitation. They just sell foods without thinking that it is safe or not. So, If you don't want to experience those every-minute-in-the-toilet thing, then you should always be aware of the food that you were eating. and also to avoid buying those tablets to relieve the pain and just wasting your money. so before you want to decide where to eat, think first about their sanitation or how they handle the food properly.

Always think about this phrase "YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR WEALTH!" :)