adulteration
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Olive Oil Fraud and the Laboratory Tests That Expose It
Extra virgin is a legal grade with measurable criteria, and one of those criteria is a trained human nose. Here is what the laboratory actually checks.
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Honey Authenticity: Testing for Syrup Adulteration
Every test developed to catch diluted honey has been answered by a syrup engineered to pass it, which is why the methods keep getting more elaborate.
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Melamine and the Loophole That Poisoned Infant Formula
For a century the food industry measured protein by measuring nitrogen. Melamine is mostly nitrogen and no protein at all, and that gap was eventually exploited…
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Food Fraud: How Laboratories Detect Adulteration
Authenticity testing is an arms race in which laboratories must guess the next substitution before it happens, because a targeted test only finds what it was…
