Fatty acid profiles as natural tracers of provenance and lipid quality indicators in illegally sourced fish and bivalves
| dc.contributor.author | Fonseca, V.F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Duarte, I.A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Matos, A.R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Reis-Santos, P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Duarte, B. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Determining where harvested or produced seafood comes from is a pressing issue worldwide, with growing consumers’ demand for traceable and sustainable seafood products. Identifying fine-scale traceability markers is particularly important in the context of small-scale fisheries, which are prone to illegal harvesting and mislabelling and associated food safety risks. Here we explored the power of fatty acid profiling as a fine-scale tracer of the geographical origin (<30 km apart) of the Peppery furrow shell bivalve (Scrobicularia plana) and the European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) collected in three locations within a large, urbanized estuary. Fatty acid profiling provided a high classification accuracy of both species to their collection sites (80%–100% for the seabass and the bivalve respectively). Fatty acid profiling also allowed the determination of food lipid quality indices. The EPA + DHA values and the atherogenic (Ai), thrombogenic (Ti) and the hypocholesterolemic/hypercholesterolemic (h/H) indexes were all within ranges of high lipid-quality seafood, albeit they varied significantly among collection sites (except h/H). Overall, results highlight the strength of fatty acid profiling as a natural marker to trace the geographic origin of small-scale fisheries products, which may be integrated into a broader regulatory monitoring framework. | |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Vanessa F. Fonseca, Irina A. Duarte, Ana Rita Matos, Patrick Reis-Santos, Bernardo Duarte | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Food Control, 2022; 134:108735-1-108735-8 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108735 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0956-7135 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1873-7129 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2440/135014 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
| dc.rights | © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | |
| dc.source.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108735 | |
| dc.subject | European seabass; Peppery furrow shell; Small scale fisheries; Provenance; Traceability; Fatty acid profiling; Lipid quality indices | |
| dc.title | Fatty acid profiles as natural tracers of provenance and lipid quality indicators in illegally sourced fish and bivalves | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published |