This review provides current information on the analytical methods used to identify food
adulteration in the six most adulterated food categories: animal origin and seafood, oils and …

The increasing concerns toward the quality and health of food products have necessitated
accurate and precise analytical methods in order to guarantee the quality of food. It is …

This paper proposes the use of random forest for adulteration detection purposes,
combining the random forest algorithm with the artificial generation of outliers from the …

Background The safety and quality of agri-food products is a critical public concern over the
years. In order to guarantee human heath, it is essential to develop a rapid and non …

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technique is a very powerful spectroscopic
technique that has been used to investigate molecular signature by detecting vibrational …

Fourier transform infrared (FT‐IR) and Raman and hyperspectral imaging (HSI) techniques
have emerged as reliable analytical methods for effectively characterizing and quantifying …

Fraud in the global food supply chain is becoming increasingly common due to the huge
profits associated with this type of criminal activity. Food commodities and ingredients that …

Major food adulteration and contamination events occur with alarming regularity and are
known to be episodic, with the question being not if but when another large-scale food …

Black pepper is the most widely used spice in the world. Spices are highly vulnerable to
economically motivated adulteration as they are high value products and traded along …

Paprika powder is a widely consumed spice, making it an attractive target for adulteration,
which is not easily detected. In this study, a portable near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer was …