Evaluation and deconstruction of fraud incidents, vulnerabilities, and social networks in organic ‘hotchpotch’ supply chains : report on fraud incident reports, vulnerability assessments, and social network analysis in the Dutch organic potatoes’, carrots’, and onions’ supply chains

This study aims to create a greater understanding of (1) existing unlawful food fraud activity, (2) food fraud vulnerabilities and (3) related network structures within the organic potatoes’, carrots’, and onions’ supply chains. Three types of methodology were applied to meet the aims: (1) an analysis of historical prevalence and patterns of food fraud in the organic sector in general and in the three selected organic chains, (2) a food fraud vulnerability analysis of supply chain actors of the three specific organic supply chains in the Netherlands, and (3) a social network analysis to identi... Mehr ...