Fraud in Animal Origin Food Products: Advances in Emerging Spectroscopic Detection Methods over the Past Five Years

Abdo Hassoun (1) , Ingrid Måge (1) , Walter Schmidt (2) , Havva Tümay Temiz (3) , Li Li (4) , Hae-Yeong Kim (5) , Heidi Nilsen (1) , Alessandra Biancolillo (6) , Abderrahmane Aït-Kaddour (7) , Marek Sikorski (8) , Ewa Sikorska (9) , Silvia Grassi (10) , Daniel Cozzolino (11)

1 NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food,Fisheries and Aquaculture Research
2 USDA Agricultural Research Service [Beltsville, Maryland]
3 Bingöl University
4 OUC - Ocean University of China
5 KHU - Kyung Hee University
6 UNIVAQ - University of L'Aquila [Italy]
7 UMRF - Unité Mixte de Recherche sur le Fromage
8 UAM - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
9 PUEB - Poznań University of Economics and Business
10 UNIMI - Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan
11 University of Queensland [Brisbane]

Animal origin food products, including fish and seafood, meat and poultry, milk and dairy foods, and other related products play significant roles in human nutrition. However, fraud in this food sector frequently occurs, leading to negative economic impacts on consumers and potential risks to public health and the environment. Therefore, the development of analytical techniques that can rapidly detect fraud and verify the authenticity of such products is of paramount importance. Traditionally, a wide variety of targeted approaches, such as chemical, chromatographic, molecular, and protein-based techniques, among others, have been frequently used to identify animal species, production methods, provenance, and processing of food products. Although these conventional methods are accurate and reliable, they are destructive, time-consuming, and can only be employed at the laboratory scale. On the contrary, alternative methods based mainly on spectroscopy have emerged in recent years as invaluable tools to overcome most of the limitations associated with traditional measurements. The number of scientific studies reporting on various authenticity issues investigated by vibrational spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and fluorescence spectroscopy has increased substantially over the past few years, indicating the tremendous potential of these techniques in the fight against food fraud. It is the aim of the present manuscript to review the state-of-the-art research advances since 2015 regarding the use of analytical methods applied to detect fraud in food products of animal origin, with particular attention paid to spectroscopic measurements coupled with chemometric analysis. The opportunities and challenges surrounding the use of spectroscopic techniques and possible future directions will also be discussed.

Mots clés: authentication; authenticity; chemometric; fish; origin; honey; meat; milk; spectroscopy; species

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Abdo Hassoun, Ingrid Måge, Walter Schmidt, Havva Tümay Temiz, Li Li, et al.. Fraud in Animal Origin Food Products: Advances in Emerging Spectroscopic Detection Methods over the Past Five Years. Foods, 2020, 9 (8), pp.1069. ⟨10.3390/foods9081069⟩. ⟨hal-03081578⟩