Food authenticity podcast series

Food authenticity: 5

Speaker: Ron Phipps, Michel Roberts

Food authenticity podcast 5: Ron Phipps, Michel Roberts

Food fraud is a global problem, has negative impact on producers, manufacturers and consumers.Food fraud not only affects the world market, particularly affect the number of bees and honey fraud, make the ecological stability and global food security at risk.

This food authenticity podcast discusses this pressing problem, we and two leading experts in the field of food of fraud in the dialogue.

The lecturer at the university of California at Los Angeles Resnick food law and policy center, executive director of professor Michael Roberts.Over the past 20 years, professor Roberts has been at the forefront of research food fraud, he was professor at the university of Arkansas a lesson the first food laws and policies.

Another speaker is Apimondia beekeeping, CPNA international co., LTD., vice President of economic science council President Ron Phipps.They two have food fraud this topic written and published a lot of articles.

The surrounding food fraud problems can be understood as two of the same key areas: general food fraud and fake out of economic motivation.Adulteration and its economic benefits are becoming the first food fraud to a great extent.Two speaker summarizes the importance of this distinction, and a series of national and international organizations and regulatory agencies for help to solve this problem is to carry out the work.

Consumers' cognition and the information science is to reduce the effects of fraud and reduce food still continue to work center.Phipps and Roberts, a professor at the share from the perspective of law and raise awareness of the ongoing work details.

They also discussed the technical problems of food adulteration and provided valuable insights, the effects of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and its accurate analysis of the potential of adulterated food content, potential, and how to make the technology and regulatory and control measures are used together, in order to effectively solve the problem of food and fraud.

Introduction of the speaker

Ron Phipps

Ron is Phipps Apimondia beekeeping economic science committee, vice chairman of the American journal of bees and honey apiservices.net website international market the authors of the report.He is the American marketing in the honey crop in the hives and the bees (2015) Dadant, lead author.Phipps had organized an international seminar on honey and health.He is also the pioneer of the international trade in honey, and involved in trying to promote the truthfulness of the honey, honey as the basis of creative marketing.

Phipps academic work including became chairman of the American philosophical association's personal assistant.Supported by the national science foundation, he works in the field of theoretical physics led to some publications, including "infinite, open and integrated the universe".Phipps as chairman of the board, help guide on long island and international chamber orchestra concert orchestra.

Michel Roberts,

Michael t. Roberts is the law school of the university of California, Los Angeles Resnick food laws and founding executive director of the centre for policy.Professor Roberts is local, national and global food supply from farm to table a wide range of legal and policy issues of thought leaders.In 2004, a professor at the first course in food laws and policies in the United States, and as a creator in 2005 to promote created the first specialized research in the field of academic journals, "journal of food laws and policies.

Since came to the university of California, Los Angeles in 2013, professor Roberts wrote and edited the main basic publications about food law.He wrote the first book on food law, the main paper entitled the act of America's food (Cambridge university press, 2016).He is also a book case "food act of common editing.Cases and materials (Wolters Kluwer 2019).Professor Roberts is editor of the international handbook of food law research (Edward new world press, forthcoming).He also wrote a number of other chapters, articles, and papers on food law subject.