‘Game-changing’ method to ensure food authenticity
A ‘game-changing’ method to ensure the authenticity of food has achieved 100% accuracy in a study, with potential for application across the food supply chain.
The study found that fusing the data from two different scientific testing methods and coupling that with AI resulted in much greater accuracy compared with other methods.
The Queen’s University, Belfast study took three years to complete, with researchers saying the results would be “very reassuring to the UK consumer”.
Food fraud is an increasingly common crime estimated to cost tens of billions of pounds globally each year.
Salmon was used as a case study, sourcing over 500 samples, both farmed and wild, from four of the main salmon-producing regions of the world – Alaska, Norway, Iceland and Scotland.
According to researchers, the study’s findings also have significant potential for use in other foodstuffs to better ensure authenticity and combat fraud.
Scientists have struggled to come up with methods of testing fish authenticity that are reliable enough, given the complexity of global supply chains and the many ways fish are processed.
Fish is also vulnerable to food fraud.
by Farming UK
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