“…With respect to oil, especially with the development of attenuated total reflectance (ATR) as a sampling technique, FTIR has been successfully applied in various analyses including authentication studies in virgin olive oil, [4−7] hazelnut, [8] and virgin coconut oil. [9] Combined with certain powerful chemometrics techniques, FTIR spectroscopy has been proven to be potentially applied in detection of lard in chocolate, [10] cake, [11] mixture of animal fats, [12,13] and in the mixture of some vegetable oils. [14] Various methods have been developed to detect adulteration of lard in vegetable oils, such as identification of lard contamination in admixture of vegetable oils using gas liquid chromatography, [15] detection of adulteration of lard in canola oil using differential scanning calorimetry, [16] and detection of lard adulteration in refined bleached deoderized (RBD) palm kernel olein using an electronic nose.…”