Food Fraud and Cyber-Enabled Adulteration

Food fraud has always been about deception, but the ledger is now digital. When batch records, temperature logs and test results live in software, altering the data becomes a route to passing off unsafe product as compliant.

This research examines cyber-enabled adulteration: the scenarios, the warning signs, and the integrity controls — tamper-evident logging, separation of duties, out-of-band verification — that catch it.

It argues that food safety and cybersecurity are converging, and that the teams responsible for each need to be in the same room.