Melamine – Screening, Testing and Real-Time Detection The adulteration of protein-based food products with melamine is now a well-known issue. Five years ago, the increasing number of renal failures in dogs and cats alerted the authorities to a problem in the pet food supply chain. We now know this was due to the mixture of melamine and cyanuric acid found inside pet food1. These chemicals were...

Asian palm civet coffee or kopi luwak (Indonesian words for coffee and palm civet) is well known as the world's priciest and rarest coffee. To protect the authenticity of luwak coffee and protect consumer from luwak coffee adulteration, it is very important to develop a robust and simple method for determining the adulteration of luwak coffee. In this research, the use of UV-Visible spectra com...

Adulteration of edible vegetable oils is a very serious problem affecting its commercial value and customers’ health. FT-NIR and Confocal Micro-Raman have been explored for discriminating adulteration of sesame oils. The soybean, corn, and peanut oil were mixed into sesame oils in the range of 5~20%(v/v),respectively,and their Confocal Micro-Raman and FT-NIR spectra were collected. Principal co...

The global economy of the international trade of herbal products has been increasing by 15% annually, with the raw material for most herbal products being sourced from South and Southeast Asian countries. In India, of the 8000 species of medicinal plants harvested from the wild, approximately 960 are in the active trade. With increasing international trade in herbal medicinal products, there is...

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) develops methodologies and tools for the detection of emerging risks in food feed. This includes identification drivers risks, such as frauds, which requires innovative approaches. In this study, an unsupervised machine learning technique called Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model, was applied on a media corpus view detecting rapidly specific ...

Developing countries are considered to be more susceptible food adulteration, including milk a large extent, as this is global concern of the risks associated with it. Due lack monitoring, adulterous can pose serious health leading fatal diseases. In study, samples were collected from several supermarkets and minimarkets in Erbil city, capital Kurdistan region Iraq. 100 cans UHT whole cow four ...

Food traceability in the supply chain is becoming increasingly important because of concerns such as fraud, adulteration, consumer requirements, and food loss. This study highlights importance reducing loss through proper monitoring at every stage chain. The actions individual players a affect its traceability. Moreover, decisions made by one player influence other players. Thus, becomes more c...

Due to its higher price, compared to other edible oils, control of adulteration of the olive oil is one of the main aspects to be evaluated in its quality control. Adulteration with hazelnut oil is one of the most difficult to be detected due to the great similarity existing in the composition of hazelnut and olive oils; both virgin olive oil and olive oil are subjected to that kind of adultera...

Globalisation extends the spectrum of plants entering the European market. Growing consumer awareness for the medical aspects of food, and a general attention on health issues in an ageing society stimulate the introduction of novel foreign plant products often derived from traditional medical or dietary use. These products are mostly located somewhere at the interphase between food supplement ...