Food Forensics
7 Apr 2014
The chemical fingerprinting of food samples will be instrumental in the fight against the deliberate contamination of food products.
Speaking at the Pittcon laboratory innovations conference in Chicago last month, scientists and academics from both the European and US food sectors said that one of the next steps in fighting food crime is to create a “chemical fingerprint” of samples to better understand when a commodity has been contaminated.
The global food industry has spent much of the last year developing the next generation of technology designed to understand and, ultimately, help eliminate cases of food fraud.
However, adulterated and contaminated products are constantly slipping through the net and finding their way onto the supermarket shelves and into the homes of consumers.
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