Food supply fraud – including the sub-category of economically motivated adulteration – is illegal intentional deception for economic gain using food supply, a subcategory of Nutraceuticals. In Western Balkan countries, although their future oriented in EU, the European Pharmacopeia is not part of their Drug policy and politics. This is reflected not only on the drug production, but also on food supply security and production.While most food fraud events do not have an immediate hazard, the nutraceuticals are vulnerable. The issue involves intelligent human adversaries, so the response is uniquely complex regarding mitigation and prevention.
In terms of danger, the record often reported of 173,000 deaths due to the consumption of
counterfeit food supplies and nutraceuticals in Western Balkan countries in the last decade There is a lack of statistical stringency and indeed these deaths did not relate directly to the counterfeiting of food supply, but more generally to diseases caused by these nutraceuticals and their misuse. It is therefore important to be more stringent when reporting these statistics and to better understand the real danger of counterfeit nutraceuticals and their impact

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#Nutraceuticals #Regulatory #Affairs #Food #Drugs