. It has been stated that “nothing is adulterated as much as saffron”. Fraudulent in saffron has been reported to be a frequent act throughout the history as long as 600 years, particularly in Middle Ages in Europe. In that era to defend the purity...

Abstract: In this work,a simple, inexpensive and rapid pH metric titrations with analyzing data by principal component analysis(PCA) was applied to identify safe from adulterated saffron.Since the Crocin,coloring agent in saffron, and chemical...

medicines. The aim of this study is to use taxonomic method for authentication of traditional herbal drugs which are commonly sold in herbal shops in Iran. In this regard, twenty-seven cases of herbal drugs suspected to be adulterated were investigated...

, by Rancimat test at 100–130 °C) were used to detect the adulteration of olive (Zard and Roghani cultivars) oils with 10–30% of palm olein, PO, and sunflower oil, SO. An adulteration index, AI (h2), which encompassed the more pervasive parameters of maximum...

with various dioxan volume fractions were recorded, and then the second order data were obtained from the solvent components gradual change–visible absorption spectra. Thus, the concentration of sunset yellow in adulterated saffron samples could be determined...

Purpose or AIM: The objective of this study was to evaluate the applicability of PCR assay for detection

of cow’s and goat’s milk sold as sheep milk.

Methods and Materials or CASE: Multiplex PCR assay using ...