The US Pharmacopeia (USP) is an independent, not-for-profit, non-governmental, science-based public-health organization with a rich history of setting public standards since 8 0, thus predating the Food and Drug Administration. Of course, most of that history is in pharmaceuticals, medicines and dietary supplements, and we started working on food-testing standards in the Food Chemicals Codex1 (...

recognition of the value of the microscope). However, these advances only really bore fruit in the 1914 British Pharmacopoeia where, for instance, ash values and the histology of powders were conspicuous for the first time. (That interest in powder histology developed so late despite the early recognition of nefarious practices by the drug grinders is a subject deserving full study.) The 1914 B...

This study was conducted keeping in view the ever increasing reports on adulteration of natural milk with various illegal substances to increase the quantity and make more profit. Qualitative analyses for the detection of adulterants in milk samples was carried out with a standard milk adulteration kit manufactured by Himedia Laboratories, Mumbai, India. Among the different milk samples tested ...

Recent cases of adulteration with melamine have led to the need for rapid and reliable screening methods. To meet this need, commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test kits for the detection of triazines were evaluated. The recently released Melamine Plate kit (Abraxis, Warminster, Pa.) displayed a limit of detection of 9 ng/ml for melamine in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and ...

Fluorescence spectroscopic properties of honey and cane sugar syrup were investigated in order to explore the use of optical techniques for detection of adulteration of honey with cane sugar syrup. Measurements showed that while the major contributor to the fluorescence of cane sugar syrup is the reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, the fluorescence of honey is dominated by flavin...

Cheese and milk are stapled dairy products consumed globally. However, adulterants in these pose significant health risks compromise their quality. Analytical techniques crucial detecting quantifying to combat adulteration. This opinion explores the problem of cheese adulteration, highlights role spectroscopic (fluorescence spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) infrared (IR) spectrosco...