Purpose: This study was carried out in order to find a reliable method for the fast detection of adulterated herbal food supplements with sexual enhancement claims. As some herbal products are advertised as "all natural", their "efficiency" is often increased by addition of active pharmaceutical ingredients such as PDE-5 inhibitors, which can be a real health threat for the consumer. Methodes: ...

Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) with an AB SCIEX 4000 Q TRAP system was used for comprehensive fingerprinting of several fruit juices. Metabolomic data processing tools were used for authentication, i.e. classification of juices and adulteration detection. The developed statistical model was able to reliably detect 25% of orange juice adulteration with apple...

Fraud, misidentification, and adulteration of food, whether unintentional or purposeful, are a worldwide growing concern. Aquaculture fisheries recognized as one the sectors most vulnerable to food fraud. Besides, series risks related health distrust between consumer popular market makes this sector develop an effective solution for fraud control. Species identification is essential aspect expo...

Milk is among the food more consumed by humanity. In this way, a study of its physical-chemical characteristics justified to analyze if components are legislation and hygiene conditions, precisely use formaldehyde as preservative, established. The International Agency for Research on Cancer warns that has physicochemical properties make it carcinogenic when in food. Brazil, does not establish m...

Sir,?Perhaps many of yours readers are aware of the fact that adulteration of quinine was in vogue even before the war. Now that during the war its price has increased enormously, this indiscriminate adulteration is going on in a larger scale. In the mofussil one ounce of quinine, Quinine (Herrings & Co.) sells for Its. 2-8, while the same quantity of the adulterated one can be had for Rs. 1-2....

Use of pesticides in India began in 1948 when DDT was imported for malaria control and BHC for locust control. Since then various synthetic pesticides are used for protection of crops and public health. The persistence nature of some of these pesticides led to their accumulation in animal tissues and subsequently causes human dietary exposure to these pesticides through consumption of animal pr...

honey is the oldest natural food produced by honeybee and comprises wide variety of valuable ingredients including carbohydrate, proteins, minerals, vitamins, organic acids, polyphenols and flavonoids that contribute to well-known therapeutic properties. this review provide available scientific information on different ways of honey adulteration and chemical contamination with the certain focus...

Against the background of globalization economic relations between countries, activation international trade is becoming urgent. In view this, one main tasks for Ukraine as a member WTO and in connection with prospect its accession to EU harmonization national regulatory legal requirements ones field food safety quality. The purpose research assess quality honey various types individual domesti...