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BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 9, Issue 37, Pages 115-128Publisher
VISAO FOKKA COMMUNICATION AGENCY
DOI: 10.30744/brjac.2179-3425.AR-23-2022
Keywords
Saffron; Geographical origin; Adulteration; FTIR spectroscopy
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This study investigates the potential of mid-infrared spectroscopy (MIR) and chemometrics algorithms for determining the geographical origin and detecting adulteration of Moroccan saffron samples. The developed models effectively classify saffron samples and accurately estimate the amount of adulterant. These methods are non-destructive, fast, and sensitive, providing precise and accurate results.
This work aims to investigate the potential of mid-infrared spectroscopy (MIR) and chemometrics algorithms for the determination of geographical origin and detection of adulteration of Moroccan saffron samples. First, the determination of the geographical origin of five saffron varieties was analyzed by linear discriminant analysis (PCA-LDA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLSDA). As a result, the developed models correctly classified saffron samples in a subset of external validation with 100% predictive ability. Next, partial least squares regression (PLS-R) was conducted to estimate the amount of adulterants (safflower) in the saffron samples. A good performance was found with Coefficient of Determination (R-2) between 0.97 and 0.99. Compared to other techniques, the main advantage of the proposed methods are non-destructive, fast and sensitive which allows to achieve very precise and accurate results.
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