Food Forensics

Various unexpected situations that can occur during food and ingredient processing can result in safety and quality concerns with the finished product. Food forensics aims to identify the root cause of these issues and find a solution to correct or prevent the recurrence of the problem. In this exercise, help is requested on an urgent problem at a sucrose production plant owned by the food company. There is foreign material in a powdered food product produced by the plant. Suspects of foreign objects are provided for chemical and elemental analysis. Participants in this exercise are pointed to various spectroscopy techniques to identify the source of the problem.