Food safety and traceability are nowadays a constant concern for consumers, and indeed for all actors in the food chain, including those involved in the fruit and vegetable sector. For the EU, the principles and legal requirements of traceability are set out in Regulation 178/2002. Currently however the regulation does not describe any analytical traceability tools. Furthermore, traceability systems for fruits and vegetables face increasing competition due to market globalization. The current challenge for actors in this sector is therefore to be sufficiently competitive in terms of price, traceability, quality and safety to avoid scandal and fraud. For all these reasons, new, flexible, cheap and efficient traceability tools, as isotopic analysis, DNA fingerprinting and metabolomic profiling coupled with chemometrics are needed.

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水果和蔬菜的可追溯性

如今，食品安全和可追溯性一直是消费者关注的问题，事实上，食品链中的所有参与者，包括参与水果和蔬菜行业的参与者。对于欧盟，可追溯性的原则和法律要求载于法规 178/2002。然而，目前该法规没有描述任何分析可追溯性工具。此外，由于市场全球化，水果和蔬菜的追溯系统面临着日益激烈的竞争。因此，该行业的参与者目前面临的挑战是在价格、可追溯性、质量和安全方面具有足够的竞争力，以避免丑闻和欺诈。由于所有这些原因，需要新的、灵活的、廉价的和高效的可追溯工具，如同位素分析、DNA 指纹和代谢组学分析以及化学计量学。