Geographical and Botanical Origin Discrimination of Romanian Honey Using Complex Stable Isotope Data and Chemometrics

Food Analytical Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 401-412

  Dinca, Oana Romina ^a,b   Ionete, Roxana Elena ^a   Popescu, Raluca ^a   Costinel, Diana ^a   Radu, Gabriel Lucian ^b  

^a Institutul National de Cercetare Dezvoltare pentru Tehnologii Criogenice si Izotopice RmValcea   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Authentication; Chemometrics; Honey; Isotopes

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; ETHANOL; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

CHEMOMETRICS; GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGINS; HONEY; ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SINGLE PARAMETER; STABLE ISOTOPE DATA;

FOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 84920707926     PISSN: 19369751     EISSN: 1936976X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12161-014-9903-x     Document Type: Article

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