Despite its seriousness, food fraud has not received the necessary attention in Ghana’s discourse on safety. Food is generally considered as intentional misrepresentation of contents or identity for economic gain. The study was aimed at assessing awareness level participants well foods most likely to be implicated cases Tamale, Ghana. Data collected from 385 participants, including business ope...

Background Cow’s milk allergy is the most common food allergy among children. Previous studies have reported that up to 75% of children may tolerate baked milk goods. Various forms of baked milk challenges have been used in the literature such as muffins, pizza, and waffles. However, the food used for baked milk challenge is often prepared in a non-standardized manner by the parents at home, ra...

Every year, e-service providers report losses of billions of dollars due to fraud. Despite their huge efforts in implementing sophisticated fraud detection systems on top of their e-services, fraud effects seem to be rather increasing than decreasing. As a result, fraud risk assessment has been introduced as a fundamental part of e-service providers’ prevention strategies. In particular, identi...

Using data from a credit card issuer, a neural network based fraud detection system was trained on a large sample of labelled credit card account transactions and tested on a holdout data set that consisted of all account activity over a subsequent two-month period of time. The neural network was trained on examples of fraud due to lost cards, stolen cards, application fraud, counterfeit fraud,...

In recent years, with the growing complexity of global food supply chains and trade, food fraud, including adulteration of high value foods with cheaper substitutes, has become an increasingly important issue. A metabolomics approach can be applied to discover biomarkers that can be used to trace food adulteration. A study was undertaken to discover novel, potential biomarkers for the rapid det...

Telecom providers are losing tremendous amounts of money due to fraud risks posed to Telecom services and products. Currently, they are mainly focusing on fraud detection approaches to reduce the impact of fraud risks against their services. However, fraud prevention approaches should also be investigated in order to further reduce fraud risks and improve the revenue of Telecom providers. Fraud...

Complete with kitchen and dining room and backed by a government laboratory, the project was the brainchild of scientists from the Bureau of Chemistry (now the Food and Drug Administration). Chief chemist Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., considered by many to be the founding father of the FDA, spearheaded the effort to separate scientific facts on food safety from the recurrent food safety scares that ha...

Previous studies on mobile ad fraud detection are limited to detecting certain types of ad fraud (e.g., placement fraud and click fraud). Dynamic interactive ad fraud has never been explored by previous work. In this paper, we propose an explorative study of ad fraud in Android apps. We first created a taxonomy of existing mobile ad fraud. Besides static placement fraud, we also created a new c...

Insurance fraud costs the property and casualty insurance industry over 25 billion dollars (USD) annually. This paper addresses workers' compensation claim fraud. A data mining approach is adopted, and issues of data preparation are discussed. The focus is on building predictive models to score an open claim for a propensity to be fraudulent. A key component to modeling is the use of textual da...