Food Authentication: Better Safety, More Powerful Technology

Food fraud—a collective term used to encompass the deliberate and intentional substitution, addition, tampering, or misrepresentation of food, food ingredients, or food packaging or false or misleading statements made about a product for economic gain—significantly impacts public health and the global economy (Spink and Moyer 2011, Moyer et al. 2017).Several food fraud cases over the past decade or so emphasize the significance of this topic. One high-profile example is the melamine …