Organic Fraud Prevention Solutions

Gwendolyn Wyard works on the development of policy strategy through regulatory engagement in the interest of OTA's mission and its members. She has been actively working in the organic industry for 17 years. At the BIOFACH 2020 congress session "Fraud, gaps and loopholes: private and public counteractions and enforcement to complement regulations", Gwendolyn presented the OTA's Organic Fraud Prevention Guide.

The Organic Fraud Prevention Guide walks a company through a systematic risk-based process for developing an organic fraud prevention plan that can then be integrated into the company's organic certification system. The basis for the guide is a combination of criminology and supply chain management. A thorough vulnerability assessment unveils where a company is most vulnerable to fraud and identifies mitigation strategies to deal with those vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the guide contains a section that explains what to do if a someone detects fraud and provides a template that helps to gather all the information needed to successfully file a complaint. A company that has completed the process can be found on an online platform called "find organic" and thereby gets positive exposure.

Gwendolyn concludes that if everybody in the supply chain did such a vulnerability assessment, a strong wall could be built that keeps the fraudsters out. The more entities enrol in the program, the stronger the organic supply chain becomes.

Please have a look at the video below and feel free to flick through the powerpoint-slides from the presentation underneath.

Video

Powerpoint Slides

 

 

Latest News

11 Apr 2014
19 Mar 2014

The 2nd International Conference on Trade and Market...

Read more
11 Mar 2014
10 Mar 2014

Meet Frank Gerriets in Berlin!

Read more
19 Feb 2014

Global interest in new tools and services

Read more
10 Feb 2014

For the first time since its establishment, Organic...

Read more
10 Jan 2014

Please join us at our exciting presentations!

Read more
8 Jan 2014

Publication of study results in the first quarter of 2014

Read more
25 Nov 2013

Organic Services was appointed to conduct the report in East...

Read more
18 Nov 2013

Certificates with QR-Code and Risk Based Audit Management

Read more
30 Oct 2013

On the way to a global integrity platform

Read more
3 Oct 2013

Join us at Anuga 2013!

Read more
23 Sep 2013

Gerald A. Herrmann will hold presentation at Expo East in...

Read more
18 Sep 2013

Gerald A. Herrmann held presentation at SANA 2013 in Bologna

Read more
11 Sep 2013
30 Aug 2013

In May and August 2013 Udo Censkowsky, executive director of...

Read more
8 Jul 2013

The Natural Cosmetics Conference will take place in Berlin...

Read more
19 Jun 2013

Udo Censkowsky, aquaculture specialist of Organic Services, ...

Read more
18 Jun 2013

Organic Services will participate in the East African...

Read more
17 Jun 2013

June 5 - June 12, 2013 in Germany and The Netherlands

Read more
17 Jun 2013

The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is the membership-based...

Read more
10 Apr 2013

A new cooperation partner has joined the world-wide network...

Read more