The present study was conducted to observe the seasonal variation in aflatoxin M1 and nutritional quality of milk along informal marketing chains. Milk samples (485) were collected from three different chains over a period of one year. The average concentrations of aflatoxin M1 during the autumn and monsoon seasons (2.60 and 2.59 ppb) were found to be significantly higher (standard error of the...

Meat products often consist of meat from multiple animal species, and inaccurate food product adulteration and mislabeling can negatively affect consumers. Therefore, a cost-effective and reliable method for identification and quantification of animal species in meat products is required. In this study, we developed a duplex droplet digital PCR (dddPCR) detection and quantification system to si...

From the toxicological point of view, in the last two years melamine and cyanuric acid have become matters of great interest. These substances, especially melamine, have been abused during food and feed adulteration by increasing the content of nitrogen compounds in these products. Melamine and cyanuric acid as individual substances do not pose any serious risk in terms of toxicology. From the ...

The market for imported, premium priced foods has increased dramatically over recent years, as consumers become ever more aware of products originating from around the world. There are many food products that are of superior quality (taste, texture, fragrance etc.) because of the locale in which they are cultivated. Environmental conditions, such as local climate and soil characteristics, combi...

Authenticity and traceability are two issues of great importance to quality food safety in the industry. For wine producers authorities, it is essential know how detect adulterations because one alcoholic beverages most prone adulteration, as indicated by European Commission. Fondillón important naturally sweet Spanish wines certainly core Alicante PDO. a that be adulteration due its limited pr...

Recently, the global food supply chain has become increasingly complex, and its scalability grown. From farm to fork, performance of food-producing systems is influenced by significant changes in environment, population economy. These may cause an increase fraud safety hazards hence, harm human health. Adopting artificial intelligence (AI) technology one strategy reduce these hazards. Although ...

Drug adulteration is equally important for the history of medicine, pharmacy, the pure sciences such as chemistry and physics, and social history. This is fully appreciated by Stieb whose book, in some measure, forms a companion volume to F. A. Filby's A History of Food Adulteration and Analysis, London, 1934. After a general introduction leading to the year 1820 (Accum's Treatise on Adulterati...

Introduction? Of the various branches of Public Health that excite public attention, the subject of the Adulteration of Food-Stuffs is one of the most important, and no doubt possesses the greatest interest. The immense benefit which Hygiene and Public Health has brought on humanity, in preventing the spread and dissemination of various infectious diseases that decimate people by hundreds and t...

There’s nothing new about the adulteration of food. The opportunity to increase profit by surreptitiously substituting inferior ingredients has tempted unscrupulous conmen and women down the centuries. Indeed, what is held to be the very first piece of public health legislation passed by theWestminster parliament was the 1757 “Act for the due making of Bread; and to regulate the Price and Assiz...

Food adulteration is an issue of growing concern, specially delicate throughout early stages of food processing, regarding the control of the original ingredients included in the process and crossed contaminations. The use of Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) to detect nuts contamination in powder food products is explored in this work. This study deals with two specific problems of using HSI for the...