THROUGH-CONTAINER DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF THE ADULTERATION OF FRUIT JUICES AND COCONUT WATER USING HANDHELD SPATIALLY OFFSET RAMAN SCATTERING

PI- Roy Goodacre (University Of Manchester)
Food Side Co-Investigator - David Ellis (University Of Manchester)
STFC Side Co-Investigator - Pavel Matousek (STFC Central Laser Facility)

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The project is to develop and test the ability of spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS), coupled with robust multivariate data analysis, for assuring the integrity of food. We have chosen fruit juices and coconut water as potential foodstuffs that are susceptible to adulteration. Both products are popular in the UK (and indeed worldwide), of high value and we have worked with these drinks before. All applicants have experience of SORS for through container counterfeit detection in alcoholic drinks. We consider that SORS has the potential to be a highly disruptive technology for food integrity analysis and could be a very valuable capable guardian (detection technology) within food systems. Both Manchester and STFC have SORS instruments so this would also allow for inter-laboratory comparisons which are needed for robust analyses across many laboratories.

Read more about this project in this blog.

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