Agriculture stands on the cusp of a digital revolution, and the same technologies that created
the Internet and are transforming medicine are now being applied in our farms and on our …

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 …

Best use of scientific knowledge is required to maintain the fundamental role of seafood in
human nutrition. While it is acknowledged that genomic-based methods allow the collection …

Food safety and quality are nowadays a major concern. Any case of food alteration,
especially when reported by the media, has a great impact on public opinion. There is an …

FISH‐BOL, the Fish Barcode of Life campaign, is an international research collaboration that
is assembling a standardized reference DNA sequence library for all fishes. Analysis is …

Economically motivated adulteration (EMA) of food, also known as food fraud, is the
intentional adulteration of food for financial advantage. A common form of EMA, undeclared …

Species identification using DNA barcodes has been widely adopted by forensic scientists
as an effective molecular tool for tracking adulterations in food and for analysing samples …

More than 230,000 known species representing 31 metazoan phyla populate the world's
oceans. Perhaps another 1,000,000 or more species remain to be discovered. There is …

Introduction Herbal medicines play an important role globally in the health care sector and in
industrialised countries they are often considered as an alternative to mono‐substance …

Species substitution is a form of seafood fraud for the purpose of economic gain. DNA
barcoding utilizes species-specific DNA sequence information for specimen identification …