Food and drink manufacturers need to learn from other industries, such as the insurance sector, and use a "systems approach"to identifying fraudulent activity in their businesses, a leading academic has suggested. Firms need to access the vulnerability of their systems, Lisa Jack, professor in accounting at the University of Portsmouth, told delegates to Food Manufacture Group's Big Video Debate - Food and drink fraud: protecting your supply chains at the Foodex show held at the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham last month. "At the Centre of Counter Fraud Studies in Portsmouth, we are interested in this problem as financial fraud. It's not as much about food, although that's important and you don't want any food safety issues,"said Jack.
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