World health is increasingly threatened by the growing number of spice-related food hazards.Further development of reliable methods for rapid, non-targeted identification of copyright ingredients within the supply chain is needed.ENEA hp 72p has developed a portable, user-friendly photoacoustic laser system for food fraud detection, based on a quantum cascade laser and multivariate calibration.Following a study on the authenticity of saffron, the instrument was challenged with a more elusive adulterant, olive leaves in oregano.
The results show that the reported method of laser sensing and chemometric analysis was wes audio 1176 able to detect adulterants at mass ratios of at least 20% in less than five minutes.