Muscle foods are an integral part of the human diet and during the last few decades consumption of poultry products in particular has increased significantly. It is important for consumers, retailers and food regulatory bodies that these products are of a consistently high quality, authentic, and have not been subjected to adulteration by any lower-grade material either by accident or for econo...

MoDERN pharmaceutical practice has made it amply clear that the production of medicinal herbs is as important as any other food crop. The resources of various medicinal herbs growing in wild conditions have been fast decreasing both in quantity and in quality due to indiscriminate methods of their collection to meet the heavy demands of the growing pharmaceutical industry. A number of other fac...

Adulteration of diesel with kerosene is common malpractice since kerosene is cheaper than diesel. Such adulteration results in increased pollution, reduced lifetime of components, decrease in engine or machine performance etc. This paper presents a simple, extrinsic intensity modulated fiber optic sensor for determining adulteration of diesel by kerosene. The sensing principle is based on varia...

Quality of rice is defined from its physical and chemical characteristics. Quality of grains is required for protecting the consumers from substandard products because the samples of food materials are subjected to adulteration. This paper provides a solution to the problem of the rice industry for quality analysis. Computer Vision based Inspection provides one alternative for fast, accurate, c...

Sustainability relies on the environmental, social and economical systems: the three pillars of sustainability. The social sustainability mostly advocates the people’s welfare, health, safety, and quality of life. In the agricultural food industry, the aspects of social sustainability, such as consumer health and safety have gained substantial attention due to the frequent cases of food-borne d...

_ Relative cheapness of lard cause it is often mixed to reduce production cost in the food industry. Therefore, it is important to purpose a detection lard contamination. In this paper, we evaluate the potential and some limitation of conductance measurement for lard detection. The study was focused to identify frequency of the edible fats adulteration. Beef tallow, chicken fat, goat fat, and p...

The adulteration and Substitution of the herbal drugs is the burning problem in herbal industry and it has caused a major treat in the research on commercial natural products. The deforestation and extinction of many species and incorrect identification of many plants has resulted in adulteration and substitution of raw drugs. The concept of substitution prevailed ages back and in Ayurveda we c...

Authenticity is an important food quality criterion. Rapid methods for confirming authenticity and detecting adulteration are widely demanded by food producers, processors, consumers and regulatory bodies. The objective of this work was to develop a model that would confirm the authenticity of Galician-labelled honeys as Galician-produced honeys. Nine metals were determined in 42 honey samples ...