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VIS/NIR Spectroscopy Spots Adulterated Crabmeat

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Anne L. Fischer

One way that food manufacturers may seek to boost profits is to add inferior ingredients to high-end products. Doing so generally does not pose a health hazard to consumers, but the failure to correctly identify ingredients defrauds customers and undercuts legitimate industry prices. To address this economic adulteration in seafood, researchers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers have used visible and near-infrared spectroscopy to detect the presence of surimi, an inexpensive whitefish filler, in samples of...Read full article

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    Published: March 2006
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    mass spectrometry
    An instrumental technique that utilizes the mass-to-charge ratio of charged particles as recorded from a mass spectrometer in order to determine the mass of a particle as well as the chemical makeup, or elemental ionic composition of a given sample or molecule.
    Basic ScienceFeaturesgas chromatographymass spectrometryNorth Carolina State Universityspectroscopy

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