National Food Crime Unit prevention desktop exercise

Please note – registration for this event is only available for new and existing food and drink manufacturers based in Wales, not for related organisations, consultants or students.

NFCU prevention desktop exercise in collaboration with ZERO2FIVE:

The National Food Crime Unit’s Prevention Team are offering a free exercise to industry partners, to help increase resilience to food crime. The exercise consists of working through a food crime scenario, with guided discussion points throughout.

Aims:

To understand key process steps and communication channels required during a food fraud incident. This will also give an understanding of the relevant internal and external stakeholders during an incident. Partners will be required to analyse a situation, make decisions, and respond effectively to mitigate the impact of the incident. We will provide a safe space for food industry professionals to practice their response to potential food crimes and their fraud-related challenges, whilst emphasising the importance of fraud prevention.

Objectives:

• To increase resilience to fraud by working through a live scenario of an incident, giving examples of good practice and things to avoid.
• To gain a greater understanding of the National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) during a food fraud incident and the role as a single point of contact
• To recognise the different types of information required as part of a food crime investigation and how to identify them.
• To understand enforcement proportionality in relation to food crime.
• To identify the relevant internal and external stakeholders during a developing food crime investigation, and how they will mitigate risks.
• To identify obstacles to dealing with food crime incidents, including time constraints in relation to securing evidence.
• To emphasise the importance of fraud resilience, prevention & deterrence in maintaining brand reputation and food safety.
• To test businesses’ emergency response plan in a food crime incident.

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Any queries about this event, please email zero2five@cardiffmet.ac.uk.