Research Infrastructure (RI) Name: Food Authenticity Lab – NMR Lab
Websites:https://www.moh.gov.cy/moh/sgl/sgl.nsf/all/407C0E52F3F8C0B1C225838500443076?opendocument
Mission: To provide robust information on the authenticity of wines, spirits, vinegars and honeys using Stable isotopic techniques (SNIF-NMR and IR-MS).
Objective: To support the authenticity of food and beverages. Food Authenticity plays an integral part of food fraud, food control and promotes specific characteristics of food.
Research Services provided:
o Determination of alcohol grade in Wine and Alcoholic Beverages.
o Determination of Brix in Sweet Wines, Honeys and Juices.
o Stable isotopes (D/H) I, (D/H) II in Wine and Alcoholic Beverages, Vinegars, Honeys and Juices.
o Isotopic ratios of 13C, 18Ο ratios in Wine and Alcoholic beverages, Vinegars, and Juices.
o FTIR and NIR in Wine and Alcoholic beverages. Isotopic ratios of 13C and 15N in casein of dairy products.
o Determination of Metals in Wines and Honeys.
Main Equipment Used:
o SNIF NMR, IR-MS, ICP-OES, ELECTRONIC DENSITY METER, ELECTRONIC DENSITY METER with Brix, OENOEXTRACTOR
| Research Category: | Chemistry and Materials
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| Main Priorities: | The main activity of the lab is the use of spectroscopic and isotopic techniques (NMR, IR-MS, ICP, FTIR-NIR) for the discrimination of authentic and non-authentic foodstuffs.
The results are processed statistically using multivariate chemo metric techniques for the extraction of useful conclusions and classification of products according to their origin.
The laboratory has created isotopic databases of authentic products, which are applied to investigate the botanical and geographical origin of the unknown samples. |
| Hosting Legal Entity: | Name: State General Laboratory (SGL)
Address: 44 Kimonos Str., 1451 Nicosia, Cyprus
Telephone Number: +35722809119
Website:https://www.moh.gov.cy/moh/sgl/sgl.nsf/index_gr/index_gr?opendocument
Email Address: info@cytanet.com.cy |
| Equipment of RI: | For more information regarding the RI (including equipment) please click the attachment below. |
| RI Contact Person: | Name: Dr. Rebecca Kokkinofta
Title: Senior Chemist of Food Authenticity & Forensic Chemistry/Toxicology & Research Coordinator
Address: 44 Kimonos Str., 2081 Nicosia, Cyprus
Telephone Number: +35722809119
Email Address: sglsnif@cytanet.com.cy |
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