Food Analysis Archives - FOCOS

BaTAnS – Barcording of Animal Species

Bert Popping — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:03:14 +0000

BaTAnS – Barcording of Animal Species. Barcoding often comes with high uncertainties which species the primers can and cannot detect. The freely available BaTAnS tool

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What is Gluten-Free? Cheers – the FDA has Ruled!

Bert Popping — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 07:04:50 +0000

The US Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) ruled on the labeling of hydrolyzed and fermented products as gluten-free. FDA constituted that there is currently no method "effective in detecting and quantifying with precision".

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Turn Your RFID Chips into Food Safety Sensors

Bert Popping — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:05:51 +0000

RFID chips can be turned into food fraud detectors. Researchers from MIT showed that 25% methanol in adulterated alcohol can be detected.

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Review of Consumer Analytical Devices Roundtable at AOAC Annual Meeting

Bert Popping — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 07:29:04 +0000

The roundtable was comprised of the CEOs and a CTO of four startup companies: Allergy Amulet represented by Abigail Barnes, Consumer Physics by Dror Sharon, Dots Corporation by Renuka Babu, and Nima Labs by Francisco Dias Lourenco. Benefits and challenges of consumer analytical devices were discussed. Risk communication was highlighted as important.

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Reflection on 20 Years of Food Allergen Testing

Carmen Diaz-Amigo — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:32:34 +0000

What have we learned in 20 years of food allergen analysis? Have we found answers to the most important questions? Are we facing new challenges? This article provides an overview about developments and status quo.

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How Analytical Method Standardization Can Help Bust Fraudsters

Bert Popping — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:03:25 +0000

Robert Bartram interviews Ray Shillito, Chair of ISO TC 34 SC 16, and Bert Popping of FOCOS, to discuss how the development of international standards can support the detection and prevention of economically motivated food adulteration commonly known as food fraud.

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Food Allergen Reference Dose – Quo Vadis?

Bert Popping — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:41:07 +0000

How safe is safe? How clean is clean? And whether to label: it contains or ‘may contain’? These are the questions that are being hotly debated at present. Why?

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Spanish OCU targets Mineral Oils in Foods

Bert Popping — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 17:42:24 +0000

Spanish Consumer Advocacy Organization, OCU, targets mineral oils in selected food products, including popular brand names.

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Significant Amounts of Microplastic Found in Fleur de Sel

Bert Popping — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:02:40 +0000

Fleur de Sel is a high-price product, appreciated by consumers for its flaky structure and taste. Recent studies have revealed that this product can be carrier of microplastics.

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