Description du projet
Quand l’huile d’olive devient un véritable «or des fous»
L’huile d’olive extra vierge est incroyablement saine et délicieuse, mais son coût est également élevé. C’est probablement la raison pour laquelle le marché est truffé de contrefaçons, de fraudes et d’escroqueries. Il est important de pouvoir évaluer correctement la qualité, la sécurité et l’authenticité de l’huile d’olive vierge. L’UE, le Conseil oléicole international et le Codex Alimentarius (FAO-OMS) ont mis en place des lignes directrices et des règlements. Les méthodes actuelles d’analyse de l’UE souffrent toutefois d’un certain nombre de lacunes pour pouvoir identifier correctement les fraudes, notamment en ce qui concerne la détection de mélanges sélectionnés d’huile d’olive associée à d’autres huiles végétales (huiles de graines). Le projet MACOOIL, financé par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA), développera de nouveaux outils qui permettront d’étendre le potentiel de détection des pratiques frauduleuses consistant à mélanger de l’huile d’olive vierge avec de l’huile d’olive raffinée (désodorisée) de moindre qualité.
Objectif
Virgin olive oil is probably the most representative and iconic component of the Mediterranean diet. No industrial processes or chemicals are added during production, thus providing an extra value reflected in its higher price compared to most edible oils. For this reason, the assessment of the quality, safety and authenticity is of importance from both economic and health perspectives. Considerable effort has been put during the last decades in this direction. Organizations such as the European Union, the International Olive Council and The Codex Alimentarius (FAO-WHO) have established guidelines and regulations to protect the quality and authenticity of virgin olive oil and to prevent fraud. However, despite these efforts towards developing new procedures for olive oil quality and authenticity assessment, appropriate solutions for some specific issues have not been found yet. Current gaps in EU analytical methods include the detection of selected blends of olive oil with other vegetable oils (seed oils), to identify fraud. Hence, it is urgent to identify and improve analytical solutions that can detect both standard and emerging frauds and to meet all the international market required information .
MACOOIL (Multidimensional approaches for comprehensive olive oil authentication) aims to propose novel cutting-edge solutions based on mass spectrometry, previously unexplored in the field, to provide adequate solutions for some of the challenges -in terms of authenticity- that need to be addressed in the virgin olive oil sector. This project will develop novel tools to extend the potential to detect fraudulent practices of mixing virgin with refined (deodorized) lower-quality olive oil.
Champ scientifique
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
23071 Jaen
Espagne