Honey adulteration with sugar syrups is a widespread problem. Several types of syrups have been used in honey adulteration, and there is no available method that can simultaneously detect all of these adulterants. In this study, we generated a small-scale database containing the specific chromatographic and mass spectrometry information on sugar syrup markers and developed a simple, rapid, and ...

A technique for the analysis of multivariate data by genetic programming (GP) is described, with particular reference to the quantitative analysis of orange juice adulteration data collected by pyrolysis mass spectrometry (PyMS). The dimensionality of the input space was reduced by ranking variables according to product moment correlation or mutual information with the outputs. The GP technique...

Seafood is an important food source for many. Consumers should be entitled to an informed choice, and there is growing concern about correct composition labeling of seafood. Due to its high price, it has been shown to be vulnerable to adulteration. In the present study, we focus on moisture levels in seafood. Moisture and crude protein contents of chilled and frozen cod, pangasius, salmon, shri...

Meat species speciation is important to validate the quality and quantity of meat and meat products. It helps in prevention of adulteration of inferior quality meat into superior quality which is in practice since long back. The adulteration in the meat trade is a vulnerable issue and sometime creates serious medico-legal and vetero-legal complications. So handling of meat trade with authentici...

Background: Detection of food adulteration is an important issue from aspects of food control and food regulation. This study aimed to detect adulteration of chicken meat in raw hamburger using species specific Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Methods: Raw hamburgers including 42 handmade and 48 industrial samples were collected from 90 restaurants and supermarkets. Following genomic DNA extra...

saffron is popular because of its delicate aroma, attractive color and medical properties and is used as a food additive. moreover, due to the high cost of saffron, adulteration is rampant in the local market. in this research, a portable electronic tongue system consisted of an array of five voltammetric sensors was developed and successfully used to discriminate adulteration in saffron sample...