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Successful quantification of Atlantic salmon in mixed food products using Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (ddPCR) to identify fraud Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Seafood plays an important role in the human diet, and as fish stocks are on the decline, more
fraudulent practices are prone to happen. Salmonids are important fish species in large parts of the
world, both commercially and as game fish, with Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) being the most farmed
marine fish. Cheaper salmonid species are potentially used as substitutes for the more expensive
salmon species. Up till now, no tool ...
fraudulent practices are prone to happen. Salmonids are important fish species in large parts of the
world, both commercially and as game fish, with Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) being the most farmed
marine fish. Cheaper salmonid species are potentially used as substitutes for the more expensive
salmon species. Up till now, no tool ...
The adulteration of food, lessons from the past, with reference to butter, margarine and fraud University of Antwerp
The history of food adulteration and fraud and attempts at their control from the Middle Ages to date is traced for Belgium and for the UK with special reference to butter and margarine. The development of analytical procedures for the authentication of milk fat is outlined, from those based on the characterisation of fatty acids derived from milk fat in the nineteenth century to chromatographic methods in the next century and the recent rapid ...
Food Fraud and the Big City Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In a number of cities the people have used self-help, the Imperial Health Department stated in 1878 in a survey about organization of food monitoring in the German Reich. At the end of the 1870s, however, in several cities private associations were formed, the so-called associations against adulteration of food, which plugged this, gap, at least temporarily, by developing their own food controls. This chapter examines their origin and ...
Fingerprinting by mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy for food fraud detection Ghent University
A newly generated, high quality DNA reference database for European fish species reveals substitution fraud of processed Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and common sole (Solea solea) at different steps of the Belgian supply chain Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Seafood forms an important part of the human diet, but fish stocks are under pressure globally. This leads to fraudulent practices such as substitution of higher value species with cheaper alternatives. Substitution is more likely to occur in processed seafood products, as species can no longer be identified visually. Molecular techniques, such as DNA barcoding by means of mitochondrial markers, do allow for a proper identification of processed ...
Succursales partout en Belgique. Delhaize Le Lion: Belgium’s First Food Chain Store, its Architecture and Brand Identity, 1867-1940. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper explores the extent to which Delhaize Le Lion, Belgium's first and largest food chain store, exploited the semiotic potential of architecture to construct a brand identity and to ensure visibility and recognition in a modern urban context. By using photographs and building plans as primary sources, the article analyzes the store front design in order to gain insight in the social values and cultural categories that are embedded ...