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. 2024 May;23(3):e13360.
doi: 10.1111/1541-4337.13360.

Food authentication, current issues, analytical techniques, and future challenges: A comprehensive review

Ali Haider  1 , Shahzad Zafar Iqbal  1 , Ijaz Ahmad Bhatti  2 , Muhammad Bilal Alim  3 , Muhammad Waseem  1 , Munawar Iqbal  4 , Amin Mousavi Khaneghah  5
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Food authentication, current issues, analytical techniques, and future challenges: A comprehensive review

Ali Haider et al. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf. 2024 May.

Abstract

Food authentication and contamination are significant concerns, especially for consumers with unique nutritional, cultural, lifestyle, and religious needs. Food authenticity involves identifying food contamination for many purposes, such as adherence to religious beliefs, safeguarding health, and consuming sanitary and organic food products. This review article examines the issues related to food authentication and food fraud in recent periods. Furthermore, the development and innovations in analytical techniques employed to authenticate various food products are comprehensively focused. Food products derived from animals are susceptible to deceptive practices, which can undermine customer confidence and pose potential health hazards due to the transmission of diseases from animals to humans. Therefore, it is necessary to employ suitable and robust analytical techniques for complex and high-risk animal-derived goods, in which molecular biomarker-based (genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) techniques are covered. Various analytical methods have been employed to ascertain the geographical provenance of food items that exhibit rapid response times, low cost, nondestructiveness, and condensability.

Keywords: food analysis; food authentication; food fraud; food safety.

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