Identification & Prevention of Adulteration: Guidance from ASTA
This guidance covers the identification and prevention of economically motivated adulteration in spices. It includes legal and regulatory definitions of adulteration, EMA prevention strategies, a decision tree to identify vulnerabilities and verification and detection of fraud in raw spice materials.
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