A recent seminar organized by the UK Food Standards Agency allowed manufacturers throughout the food industry to discover the latest methods being employed to track and prevent food fraud.
The seminar showcased emerging technologies and methods, funded by the FSA's authenticity program.
Food authenticity research is harnessing new technology to resolve difficult issues of mis-description. For instance, the rapid development of DNA-based techniques in other research areas has now been applied to testing food authenticity.
For example, one of the presentations described how tests have developed to authenticate Basmati rice. Basmati rice is sold at a premium on the world market, and the 'Basmati' label should only be used to describe certain long grain aromatic rice varieties grown in India and Pakistan.
Today commercial testing is available based on a DNA sequencer method. Tepnel BioSystems carried out a survey for the Rice Association, the preliminary results of which show that levels of adulterated rice have fallen since 2006.
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