Today, the first window of our Food Fraud Detection Goes Mobile Van has opened!
When looking at the types of adulteration you find in food and feed products, it’s regularly the case that low quality or contaminated materials are being used. One example for this scenario are materials that contain a much lower micro-nutrient content, another the sale of street salt (for deicing roads) as cooking salt. But there are more tricks fraudsters have in their toolbox.
What if you want to produce salt-reduced snacks and you use potassium chloride (KCl) instead of sodium chloride (NaCl)? How do you ensure the KCl is KCl and not NaCl?
Lets take Chromium (Cr): it’s one of the heavy metals where some species are more toxic than others. Chromium can get into the soil through a number of industrial activities, including coal-fired power production, electroplating, petroleum refining and pulp production. If the soil where you are growing your products is contaminated with Chromium, it will end up in cereals and herbs, and ultimately in the products on our plates. How do you find out how much Chromium you have in your cereals and bread?
So how about getting the answers to all these questions above on the spot and in seconds?
The device we’re showing can do all that (and much more) for you! And you don’t need to be a scientist to use it! It’s easy to use by factory workers and experts alike!
If you want to get the full story, attend our session “Food Fraud Goes Mobile” on Tuesday, September 10, 10:15-11:45, in the Grand Ballroom 2.
For more information about the AOAC Annual Meeting and the link to register, click this link.
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