ICS staff have used this method to successfully undertake approximately 800 raw material food fraud assessments across the following industry sectors: bakery, spices, dry goods, seafood, fresh produce, beverages, nuts and confectionary.

From 2006 to 2008 Clare Winkel worked on the European Union research project (STREPS no FP6- 518451) with Wageningen University (Netherlands), TNO Quality of Life (Netherlands), Federal Research Institute for Nutrition & Food (Germany) and University College Dublin (Ireland): Developing a Stakeholders Guide on the vulnerability of food & feed chains to dangerous agents & substances: the key activity included the development of a new method of risk assessment to enable the assessment of the supply chain of farmed Atlantic Salmon for vulnerabilities to food safety contaminants, including assessment of traceability & documentation failure & failure to detect contaminants. All of which are conditions that can lead to food fraud. This project successfully identified a number of food fraud activities during the project.

Additionally, Clare has worked in the food processing industry since 1987 and from 2004 has been an auditor of GFSI, retailer & fast-food chains in 14 countries. This has enabled her to have a deep understanding of many food industry supply chains and how and where fraud can occur.