Highlights•Rice traceability is essential to prevent illegal rice trading and assure its
quality.•Metabolomics approaches are feasible for rice traceability and quality …

In this work, a method to detect and quantify melamine in three different powdered milks is
presented. The goal has been achieved by training convolutional neural networks (CNN) …

The pan-European distributed Research Infrastructure for Promoting Metrology in Food and
Nutrition (METROFOOD-RI) has evolved in the frame of the European Strategy Forum on …

The objective of this study was to develop a rapid technique to authenticate potato chip
frying oils using vibrational spectroscopy signatures in combination with pattern recognition …

A new DNA microarray test kit has been developed to detect foodborne pathogens in
various food matrices. This study focuses on evaluating the PathogenDx microarray-based …

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are commercially important
omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oils. Here we demonstrate that a handheld Raman …

Raman spectroscopy has attracted considerable interest during the past two decades as a
vibrational technique used for the molecular characterisation of different molecules. Whilst …

The world population will increase to more than 9 billion people by 2050. 1-2 In this context,
changes might occurred at several points of the food supply and value chains, where the …

The food supply chain (FSC) is complex, immense and crucial to human beings. Disruptions,
fragmentation, poor product traceability, improper product flows, food contamination, food …

Spices are added in order to enhance the organoleptic characteristics of food and culinary
dishes, making them more attractive for consumers. The use of illicit cheap colourants might …