Olive Oil: Novel Analytical Approaches for the Detection of Common and Emerging Infringements
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 577
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food authentication; food contaminants; edible oil characterization; food fraud identification; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; bioactive compounds
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Dear colleagues,
Extra virgin olive oil undoubtedly represents the main edible vegetable oil consumed in Mediterranean countries and is a key element of the Mediterranean diet. For these reasons, and because of the health benefits associated with its consumption, virgin olive oil is somewhat more expensive in comparison to other vegetable oils, such as seed oils or olive oils of lower commercial categories. As a result, virgin olive oil infringements (both fraud and non-compliance) are increasingly common, as also stated by the European Food Fraud Network Activity Report in 2019. In this scenario, in order to improve consumer protection, the constant development of new analytical solutions is required. Nowadays, chromatographic methods (GC and LC) are among the most powerful techniques employed to guarantee virgin olive oil authenticity and to prevent fraud. In this Special Issue, the role of novel or even improved analytical approaches based on chromatographic techniques for the detection of both common and emerging infringements of virgin olive oil will be addressed. Both original research articles and reviews are welcome.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Paolo Lucci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fraud
- olive oil
- seed oil
- authenticity
- genuineness
- quality
- analytical method
- purity
- gas chromatography
- liquid chromatography
- oil composition
