Detection of counterfeit brand spirits using 1H NMR fingerprints in comparison to sensory analysis

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy in Food Science: A Comprehensive Review

“…Because in most cases a single biomarker is not adequate for the classification of a food as authentic or nonauthentic, discrimination is usually achieved by the combination of NMR with MVSA (Esslinger, Riedl, & Fauhl‐Hassek, ; López et al., ) using untargeted or targeted analysis, which has been described in the chemometrics section. Applications include beverages (Ali, Maltese, Toepfer, Choi, & Verpoorte, ; Anastasiadi et al., ; Fan et al., ; Godelmann et al., ; Košir & Kidrič ; Kuballa et al., ; Mannina et al., ; Marcone et al., ; Viggiani & Morelli, ), fruits and vegetables (Capitani et al., ; Kim et al., ; Longobardi et al., ; Pacifico et al., ), honey (Beretta et al, ; Schievano et al, ), fats, and oils (Alonso‐Salces et al., , 2010b; Dais & Hatzakis, ; Kim et al., ; Kritioti, Menexes, & Drouza, ; Mannina & Segre, ; Mannina & Sobolev, ; Merchak et al., , , ; Özdemir et al., ; Shi et al., ; Standal, Aursand, & Axelson, ; Standal, Axelson, & Aursand, ; Zhang et al., ), spices (Farag et al., ; Kuballa et al., ; Hu et al., ; Petrakis et al., ; Petrakis et al., ), dietary supplements (Minoja & Napoli, ; Yuk et al., ), and meat (Jung et al., ; Sacco, Brescia, Buccolieri, & Caputi Jambrenghi, ), fish, and dairy products (Consonni & Cagliani, , ; Li et al., ; Marcone et al., ; Sacco et al., ; Shintu & Caldarelli, ; Spyros & Dais, ; Tociu, Todasca, Bratu, Mihalache, & Manolache, ). The most common factors that are investigated are variety (Clausen et al., ; Girelli, Del Coco, & Fanizzi, ; Schievano, Peggion, & Mammi, ), geographical origin (Alonso‐Salces et al., …”

“…Because in most cases a single biomarker is not adequate for the classification of a food as authentic or nonauthentic, discrimination is usually achieved by the combination of NMR with MVSA (Esslinger, Riedl, & Fauhl-Hassek, 2014;López et al, 2014) using untargeted or targeted analysis, which has been described in the chemometrics section. Applications include beverages (Ali, Maltese, Toepfer, Choi, & Verpoorte, 2011;Anastasiadi et al, 2009;Fan et al, 2018;Godelmann et al, 2013;Kosǐr & Kidrič2002;Kuballa et al, 2018a;Mannina et al, 2016;Marcone et al, 2013;Viggiani & Morelli, 2008), fruits and vegetables (Capitani et al, 2010;Kim et al, 2013;Longobardi et al, 2013;Pacifico et al, 2013), honey (Beretta et al, 2008;Schievano et al, 2012), fats, and oils (Alonso-Salces et al, 2010a, 2010bKim et al, 2015;Kritioti, Menexes, & Drouza, 2018;Mannina & Segre, 2002;Mannina & Sobolev, 2011;Merchak et al, 2016Merchak et al, , 2018Özdemir et al, 2018;Shi et al, 2018;Standal, Aursand, & Axelson, 2011;Standal, Axelson, & Aursand, 2009;Zhang et al, 2018c), spices (Farag et al, 2018;Kuballa et al, 2018b;Hu et al, 2017;Petrakis et al, 2015;Petrakis et al, 2017), dietary supplements…”

“…In addition, the development of prediction models based on the spectral data may help us to address issues related to human assessments, such as high cost and the length of analysis. NMR has been successfully used for the sensory analysis of several products such as spirits (Kuballa et al, 2018a(Kuballa et al, , 2018b, meat (Straadt, Aaslyng, & Bertram, 2014), juices (Clausen, Pedersen, Bertram, & Kidmose, 2011), coffee (Wei, Furihata, Miyakawa, & Tanokura, 2014), beer (Sánchez-Estébanez et al, 2018), wine (Ali et al, 2011), tomatoes (Malmendal et al, 2011, nuts (Kobler et al, 2011), and olive oil (Lauri et al, 2013). NMR metabolomics has been recently used to discriminate Lactobacillus strains in fermented vegetable juices (Tomita, Saito, Nakamura, Sekiyama, & Kikuchi, 2017).…”

Overview on Untargeted Methods to Combat Food Frauds: A Focus on Fishery Products

“…In the past years, several cases of methanol poisonings with counterfeit spirits have occurred in different regions of Russia, causing the death of many people and drawing attention once more to the problem of unrecorded alcohol consumption in the Russian Federation [54,55].…”

Commentary on Probst et al. (2018): Unrecorded alcohol use—an underestimated global phenomenon

“…One main type of such deceptively sold unrecorded alcohol is counterfeited or faked spirits. From packaging and taste, the products are often undistinguishable from authentic products . The most well‐known example of this phenomenon is the methanol poisoning outbreak in the Czech republic in 2012.…”