ROLE OF CONTROL IN PROTECTING CONSUMERS FROM FOOD FRAUD

Nassar, Mahmoud E.A.; Farrag, Salwa A.; AlShatouri, Ahmed A.

doi:10.21608/sinjas.2023.183978.1183

ROLE OF CONTROL IN PROTECTING CONSUMERS FROM FOOD FRAUD

Document Type : Researches

Authors

¹ Dept. Admin., legal and Environ. Sci., Inst. Environ. Stud., Arish Univ., Egypt.

² Dept. Political Science, Fac. Commerce, Suez Canal Univ., Egypt.

³ Dept. Biological Sci. and Sports Health, Arish Univ., Egypt.

10.21608/sinjas.2023.183978.1183

Abstract

The crime of fraud in foodstuffs is considered one of the most serious crimes facing society as a whole. The study aims to know the role of the regulatory agencies to prevent and combat the phenomenon of fraud in foodstuffs, as well as to know the reasons for the spread of the phenomenon of food fraud, and to know the areas of consumer protection and his rights to obtain safe and sound commodities. And it relied on the descriptive and analytical approach in the study, using the questionnaires, and the study reached several results, the most important of which was that the high prices of food commodities were followed by an increase in fraud, and the consumer's desire to buy cheap counterfeit goods. recommendations, the most important was the development of the oversight role of the various state agencies on basic commodities, especially food commodities, to reduce food fraud, as well as the maintenance of some laws in order to comply with global political and economic changes.

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