FOOD FRAUD

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Purpose

Food Fraud program of AMM is designed to ensure the prevention of purposely altering,
substituting, mislabeling or tampering with any food product or ingredient at any point from
receiving of raw materials to consumers throughout the food supply chain and to protect the
trust of our customers by maintaining fair, sustainable business practices.

Monitoring frequency

Annual & also based on the entry of new suppliers.

Procedure prevents food fraud

 Developing a food fraud team

1. A food fraud team is formulated.

2. The well-developed team includes members from various areas like management,
security, quality control/ assurance, human resources, and maintenance.

Food Fraud Team

Name Role Designation

Food Fraud Coordinator

Food Fraud Team member

Food Fraud Team member

Food Fraud Team member

PROCEDURE - PREVENTIVE MEASURES

Measures for raw material and process are addressed separately. Measures for raw material is
done in three different levels such as –

1. Supplier evaluation and approval

2. Material qualification based on available international standards

3. Vendor specification verified based on material requirement

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4. COA and in-house testing

Each raw material is taken to storage receipt only after subjecting it to above levels to assure
and check the raw material’s purity and quality.

1. Suppler Evaluation and approval –

 Suppliers of each raw material are subjected to evaluation and on qualifying

they are approved for further purchasing of the same.

 Suppliers are evaluated by verifying and documenting their certificates such as

FSMS, BRC or any QMS certificates issued by the international accredited
certification body.

 All certificates of each supplier are stored in AMM database with respective
folder paths displayed in Material risk assessment.

 The manufacturing method used to produce the raw material, packing

specification and the transport method used to deliver are taken into
consideration for evaluation.

 COA is also provided by suppliers showing their specification for each product
which shall meet AMM and failing which the product is rejected.

 Above details and documents are verified annually or whenever required based
on changes in supplier certification or any quality deviation found in supplier’s
raw materials.

2. Material requirement based on available international standard

 Each raw material is subjected to research on its quality specification from

international standards such as FEMA (Flavour Extract Manufacturers
Association), JECFA (Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives) based on
which physical and chemical parameters are determined for the raw material
(Internal spec) to check its purity and characteristics.

 From the determined parameters and values, a stringent range of values is

prepared (Internal spec) which will be AMM’s quality specification
requirements for each raw material.
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 All raw material used for production are subjected to above research and
respective Internal values are fixed and can be found in Material risk
assessment – ERP

3. Vendor specification verified based on material requirement

 The prepared External spec is provided to vendor and the same is compared
with vendor specification.

 Specs provided by vendor for each raw material is verified by in-house

laboratory analysis.

4. Vendor specification and in-house testing

 On arrival of each raw material from supplier sampling is done and

quality analysis is done based on the external parameters that has been
prepared by AMM through international standards reference.

 Test results are verified and compared with vendor’s specs, COA and
AMM external spec

 Raw materials passing above verification is taken for storage receipt,

failing which will be rejected with intimation to the supplier.

The food fraud program includes but not limited to:

MITIGATION
FRAUD CATEGORY SUSCEPTIBILITY STRATEGY

Product Substitution or Raw Materials are potential Our supplier approval

mislabeling (Exchange for target: program verifies that
cheaper or inferior raw products are received within
material) - Incoming specification and the raw
raw materials are subjected to
material internal lab analysis and our
or business relationships are
ingredient maintained with responsible /
may be reputable suppliers
substituted
with
inferior
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quality
material.

Our supplier approval

program verifies that
products are received within
Product Dilution (Added
Unnecessary or foreign bodies specification and the raw
ingredients for weight that
can be added to raw material materials are subjected to
are not the intended
bags for bulking the bag internal lab analysis and that
ingredient)
business relationships are
maintained with responsible /
reputable suppliers

Branded label templates are

maintained solely at the
verified printing agency with
supplier approval. Obsolete
AMM is a well-known brand or unused labels are
Counterfeit company or label
with an average price point that discarded via shredding or
or product in market
would encourage counterfeiting incineration. The inventory
of labels is maintained that
would identify theft.

Products can be stolen or Outgoing freight is carried by

Theft of company goods
misused during transit approved licensed carriers

4. FOOD FRAUD PROGRAM REVISION

The Food Safety Coordinator will review the food fraud program on a regular basis, in
accordance with developing fraud and will be formally reviewed annually.

5. RECORDS

 Vulnerability Assessment Report for the RM – AMM-FSM-DC-029