<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Unscrupulous food business operators may use recycled frying oil to save costs. Of particular concern is the recycled frying oil is usually taken from nonhalal food premises which should not be used by halal food premises, and indeed may posing health treats to consumers. Hence, the objective of this paper is to analyse pork adulteration in recycled frying oils by using the combination of Raman spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Samples of frying oils from homemade fried pork, fried chicken, fried fish and fried banana were analyzed. Spiked samples were prepared by adding frying oil from homemade fried pork ranging from 10% to 50% (v/v) to frying oils from homemade fried chicken, fried fish and fried banana. The results found that Raman spectroscopy and PCA are able to differentiate adulterated frying oil and unadulterated frying oils. However, it could not distinguish the percentage of pork adulteration in the spiked samples. This method would beneficial to ensure food integrity in the frying oils.</p></abstract>

Unscrupulous food business operators may use recycled frying oil to save costs. Of particular concern is the recycled frying oil is usually taken from nonhalal food premises which should not be used by halal food premises, and indeed may posing health treats to consumers. Hence, the objective of this paper is to analyse pork adulteration in recycled frying oils by using the combination of Raman spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Samples of frying oils from homemade fried pork, fried chicken, fried fish and fried banana were analyzed. Spiked samples were prepared by adding frying oil from homemade fried pork ranging from 10% to 50% (v/v) to frying oils from homemade fried chicken, fried fish and fried banana. The results found that Raman spectroscopy and PCA are able to differentiate adulterated frying oil and unadulterated frying oils. However, it could not distinguish the percentage of pork adulteration in the spiked samples. This method would beneficial to ensure food integrity in the frying oils.

Analysis of Pork Adulteration In Recycled Frying Oils Using Raman Spectroscopy

Department of Biotechnology, Kulliyyah of Science

International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)

Malaysian Journal of Halal Research

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Unscrupulous food business operators may use recycled frying oil to save costs. Of particular concern is the recycled frying oil is usually taken from nonhalal...

Analysis of Pork Adulteration In Recycled Frying Oils Using Raman Spectroscopy

Publié en ligne: 01 mars 2021

Pages: 14 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mjhr-2021-0004

Mots clés
recycled, consumers, homemade, frying oil, adulteration

© 2021 Haizatul Hadirah Ghazali et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Analysis of Pork Adulteration In Recycled Frying Oils Using Raman Spectroscopy

Publié en ligne: 01 mars 2021

Pages: 14 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mjhr-2021-0004

Mots clésrecycled, consumers, homemade, frying oil, adulteration

© 2021 Haizatul Hadirah Ghazali et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
recycled, consumers, homemade, frying oil, adulteration