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Hungary Using Nuclear Screening to Protect Against Wine Fraud
Hungary—a country with a growing wine export market—is composed of 22 wine regions. Despite winemaking playing an important role in Hungarian culture for hundreds of years, the country has not been as...
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Integrity of Laboratory Data Crucial in Food Testing
Global regulators continue to focus on food fraud, whether deliberate or accidental. The food industry has risen to the challenge by finding innovative new tools to monitor food and ingredients along...
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Global Developments Surrounding Food Authenticity
Image Credit: Esteban Die Ros/Shutterstock (Editor’s Note: This is an online-only article attributed to the December/January 2019 issue.) Food fraud—the act of deliberate substitution, addition,...
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Authentication of Specialty Tea: An Application Note
There has been a lot of research on the health benefits of consuming tea, especially the five main types that are produced from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant (white, black, green, oolong,...
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Using DNA in Food Traceability
Today’s food industry is truly global, involving producers and manufacturers from around the world. Consumers are increasingly demanding transparency about food composition. However, ensuring...
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Authentic Spices: Method for Identifying the Country of Origin
International trade in spices has continued to thrive over thousands of years. Present-day producers and importers need to be aware of any legal requirements relating to food safety and quality...
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IAEA Launches Global Project to Fight Food Fraud
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on May 22 that it is launching a five-year research project with experts from 16 countries to refine methods to apply nuclear-derived techniques...
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Food Adulteration: History of Food Safety Laws and What It Means Today
What does it mean for a food to be “adulterated”? From a lay standpoint, it is a simple question. But from a legal standpoint, the answer is surprisingly complex. The section of the U.S. Code (21 U.S....
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Taking Adulteration Analysis to the Next Level
Combating food fraud has different meanings depending on whom you ask along the supply chain. For growers, it refers to protecting the integrity of the ingredients they introduce into the supply chain....
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Ingredient Standards Are Vital to Supply Chain Integrity
Maintaining food security and safety depends on protecting the integrity of the entire food supply chain. While our food has become multinational, diverse, and nonseasonal, these improvements have come...
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