Food Authenticity Program Meeting Book (March 13, 2020)

Reference Materials for Food Authenticity

Steven Gendel, PhD Senior Director, Food Science Food Chemicals Codex

What is:

• A reference material? – ISO: Material, sufficiently homogeneous and stable with respect to one or more specified properties, which has been established to be fit for its intended use in a measurement process • Authenticity? – ISO: property that an entity is what it claims to be – CEN: when the food product actually is what the claim says that it is

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SAFEGUARDING THE INTEGRITY OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY