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The Detection and Quantification of Adulteration in Olive Oil by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics

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A new procedure has been developed for the classification and quantification of the adulteration of pure olive oil by soya oil, sun flower oil, corn oil, walnut oil and hazelnut oil. The study was based on a chemometric analysis of the near-infrared (NIR) spectra of olive-oil mixtures containing different adulterants. The adulteration of olive oil was carefully carried out gravimetrically in a 4 mm quartz cuvette, starting with pure olive oil in the cuvette first. NIR spectra of the 525 adulterated mixtures were measured in the region of 12000–4000 cm–1. The spectra were subjected batch wise to multiplicative signal correction (MSC) before calculating the principal component (PCA) models. The MSC-corrected data were subjected to Savitzky–Golay smoothing and a mean normalization procedure before developing partial least-squares calibration (PLS) models. The results revealed that the models predicted the adulterants, corn oil, sun flower oil, soya oil, walnut oil and hazelnut oil involved in olive oil with error limits ±0.57, ±1.32, ±0.96, ±0.56 and ±0.57% weight/weight, respectively. Furthermore, the PCA developed models were able to classify unknown adulterated olive oil mixtures with almost 100% certainty. Quantification of the adulterants was carried out using their respective PLS models within the same error limits as mentioned above.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Agder University College, Serviceboks 422, N-4604, Kristiansand, Norway

    Alfred A. Christy & Sumaporn Kasemsumran

  2. Department of Chemistry, Research Center for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, School of Science & Technology, Kwansei-Gakuin University, Sanda, 669-1337, Japan

    Yiping Du & Yukihiro Ozaki

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Christy, A.A., Kasemsumran, S., Du, Y. et al. The Detection and Quantification of Adulteration in Olive Oil by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics. ANAL. SCI. 20, 935–940 (2004). https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.20.935

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