Food Fraud: Public Health Threats and the Need for New Analytical Detection Approaches
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چکیده
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 (FCC) in 006. USP is a volunteer-based organization. The information that goes into establishing our standards primarily comes from volunteers in industry and academia, and regulatory agencies, who bring those data to us, and then we have volunteer-cited experts who help to establish and determine whether our methods are suitable for their intended use. I will discuss economically motivated adulteration (EMA), how it relates to food fraud and the public-health threat. I will talk about gaps in analytical technologies and I’ll conclude by describing some of the things that USP is doing to modernize testing methods to deter EMA and fraud.
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