Supply Chain Risk Management

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Supply Chain Fraud, Corruption,

Counterfeiting, and Theft

Groeb Farms, a major U.S. honey supplier, was involved in the nation’s

largest food fraud: an incident that eventually forced the company into

bankruptcy. is honey laundering case involved a German company,

ALW, that illegally imported cheap and sometimes adulterated Chinese

honey. While the honey itself is not illegal, mislabeling the product and

avoiding taris is a dierent story. ALW had its oces in China use inde-

pendent brokers to procure honey that eventually became honey “not

from China.”

e motivation behind the honey fraud is that honey from China to the

United States is ...