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Are you interested in the development and validation of non-targeted methods for adulteration of food ingredients or dietary supplements? If so, USP invites your feedback on the proposed ‘Guidance on Developing Non-Targeted Methods for Adulteration Detection.’ This draft guidance is intended to provide users in supply chain management with information that can be applied to testing and authentication of raw materials. Deadline for comments is 31 March 2017.

To learn more and submit comments visit: USP Guidance on Non-Targeted Methods

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USP updates its Food Fraud Database: FFD 2.0

The FFD 2.0 version can identify trends and risks using a custom dashboard, which will alert users to new food fraud incidents and track ingredients of concern. The result is meant to allow users to stay on top of the economically motivated adulteration of food products, wherever they may occur.

FFD 2.0 also contains incident reports, surveillance records and analytical methods gathered from scientific journals, media publications, regulatory records, judicial records and trade associations around the world in addition to thousands of ingredients and related adulterants.

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