Geographical Origin Authentication of Agri-Food Products: Α Review.

Katerina Katerinopoulou,Angelos Patakas,Athanasios Ladavos,Constantinos E Salmas,Achilleas Kontogeorgos

doi:10.3390/foods9040489

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Abstract

This study is a systematic literature review of geographical origin authentication by elemental analytical techniques. Authentication and certification of geographic origin of agri-food products is a useful tool toward the protection of the quality for products. The aim of this work was to map the current state of research in the area of agricultural products and food, identifying emerging fields to the geographical origin of products. The article is divided in three parts. The first part of the article deals with the analytical techniques applied in the food authentication. Special mention is made to elemental analysis and multiple isotope ratio. The second section focuses on statistically published data concerning published research for geographical origin authentication for the period 2015–2019. Specific results are presented inter alia: number of articles according to the type of product, articles according to the type of the analytical techniques, and others. The third part contains characteristic results from articles that were published in the period 2015–2019, on certification of geographical origin on specific agricultural products.

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The spread of agricultural products and their appearance on the market as Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Products Geographical Indication (PGI), traditional specialty guaranteed (TSG), or organic products has attracted considerable attention as an important factor affecting consumer behavior
systematic literature review (SLR) is more common in medical sciences, nowadays, researchers have indicated the need for a systematic approach to all areas of research [4,6]
The aim in the presentation of descriptive findings was to map the development of the research area for analytical techniques and for products that dominate how their geographical origin is controlled

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The spread of agricultural products and their appearance on the market as Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Products Geographical Indication (PGI), traditional specialty guaranteed (TSG), or organic products has attracted considerable attention as an important factor affecting consumer behavior. The most common case is the problem of uncontrolled imported qualitatively inferior agricultural products, which are marketed as ‘local’ or emanating from specific geographic regions. The most common type of fraud in foods, referred to in 95% of publications is the replacement of a component with a similar cheaper component [1], which is difficult to recognize by the consumer and difficult to identify by analytical techniques. Since the beginning of 1980s, worldwide research effort to develop new techniques and methodologies has been aimed at targeting and identifying the geographical origin of agri-food products [3]

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