New food fingerprinting to fight food fraud

摘要

A new origin testing technology has been developed that will not only identify a product's country of origin, but its precise region. Food Forensics, a testing laboratory based on the Norwich Research Park, uses'stable isotope ratio analysis'on food samples. This produces a fingerprint'with a unique pattern.To enable drilling down into regional origins, it has spent the last 12 months creating a database of British samples.