Robust Chemical Testing for Food Safety: Assessing and Identifying Dye Adulterants in Blueberry Juice: A Comprehensive Case Study with Statistical Measures and Correlation Analysis
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Saurabh BhandareFoxabell - Laboratorium Investigativum, "Laboratorium Scientiae et Studiorum Investigativorum.Author
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Sarika Shivaji MalodeFoxabell - Laboratorium Investigativum, "Laboratorium Scientiae et Studiorum Investigativorum.Author
Abstract
In the food sector, the problem of food fraud—which encompasses the more focused category of adulteration driven by economic gain—is becoming more widely acknowledged and is raising concerns. Both the government and the industry are accountable for avoiding food adulteration, regardless of where the food danger originated. Food adulteration can result from incidents concerning food safety, food fraud, and food defence, which poses serious risks to the general public's health. In contrast to inadvertent injury in food safety events and intentional harm in food defence incidents, food fraud entails intentional activities for financial gain. Although financially motivated adulteration may have financial motivations, the unusual nature of contaminants frequently makes the related public health hazards more dangerous than traditional food safety threats. Establishing and executing a database that aggregates reports of food component fraud available for publicly accessible sources is an essential task. For governments, agencies, and individual enterprises assessing the possible dangers associated with certain items created in specific regions and those disseminated and sold elsewhere, this database provides essential information and useful data. The paper also describes current analytical tools for identifying food fraud and highlights new developments and trends in the food production industry and the food production bad sector.
Keywords:
Adulteration, Artificial dyes, Average consumption, Blueberry juice, Chemical laboratory investigations, Correlation with other factors, Frequency distribution, Percentage, Statistical measures, ToxicityReferences
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