DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED ANALYTICAL METHODS TO DETERMINE THE AUTHENTICITY OF FRUIT JUICE

Objective

The authenticity and purity of fruit juice products is extensively monitored for purposes of consumer protection, good trading practice and Community customs classification. Where they exist, the National systems of assessment for quality identity and authenticity (e.g. AFNOR, RSK, respectively in France and Germany) are generally based on previous practice of production and trade and the analytical methods are based on conventional procedures of analysis (IFU methods and recently issued CEN methods). This situation will not meet future needs because of the ingenuity of those who falsify and manipulate has become more and more sophisticated.

A number of methods used to detect the most common adulteration will be studied. They include the determination of characteristic substances:

- anthocyanins and carotenoids
- flavonoids
- organic acids
and the determination of exogenous sugar by NMR, MS and detection of oligosaccharides by combined HPLC gas chromatography.

Programme(s)

• FP2-BCR 4 - Research and development programme (EEC) in the field of applied metrology and chemical analysis (Community Bureau of Reference - BCR), 1988-1992

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

EUROFINS SCIENTIFIC ANALYTICS

Address

Rue Pierre Adolphe Bobierre Site De La Geraudiere
44323 Nantes
France

Participants (7)

Gesellschaft für Lebensmittelforschung GmbH

Germany

Address

Berlin

Pernod Ricard SA

France

Address

120 Avenue Du Maréchal Foch
94015 Créteil

Rijksuniversiteit Gent

Belgium

Address

Gent

SCHUTZGEMEINSCHAFT DER FRUCHTSAFT-INDUSTRIE E.V.

Germany

Address

Am Hahnenbusch 14 B
55268 Nieder-olm

Stazione Sperimentale per l'Industria delle Conserve Alimentari

Italy

Address

Parma

Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Germany

Address

Lichtenbergstrasse 4
85748 Garching

Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig

Germany

Address

Pockelsstraße 14
38106 Braunschweig