Food fraud

Red wine: authentication through the bottle

A study demonstrates a noninvasive optical technique, using near-infrared fluorescence and a special lens geometry, capable of distinguishing red wines through sealed green glass. A single 785 nm source is sufficient to unmask fraud

E-nose and adulterated tomato paste

The results of a study demonstrate the potential and effectiveness of the electronic nose as a non-destructive, rapid and cost-effective tool for detecting adulteration in tomato concentrate, and suggest its applicability to other food matrices

Sausage with sulphites, a crime also condemned as intentional

The addition of sulphites to sausage, a product then put on sale in a supermarket, constitutes the two concurrent crimes of Article 516 and Article 440 of the Criminal Code, the latter possibly in the negligent form referred to in Article 452 of the Criminal Code

Vincenzo Pacileo, former Magistrate at the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Turin

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