DNA Techniques to Verify Food Authenticity
Burns, Malcolm (LGC Limited, UK) / Foster, Lucy (Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK) / Walker, Michael (Michael Walker Consulting Ltd, UK)
The food supply chain needs to reassure consumers and businesses about the safety and standards of food. Global estimates of the cost of food fraud to economies run into billions of dollars hence a huge surge in interest in food authenticity and means of detecting and preventing food fraud and food crime. Approaches targeting DNA markers have assumed a pre-eminence. This book is the most comprehensive and timely collection of material from tho...