Tracing Provenance: differentiating European from Argentinean Foods

WUNDERLIN, DANIEL A.; OSTERA, H. A.; PERAL-GARCÍA, PILAR; CAGNONI, M; BARONI, M. VERÓNICA; PODIO, NATALIA S.; FABANI, M. PAULA; DÍAZ , M. PILAR; BADINI, RAUL; INGA, CLAUDIA M.

Bruselas

Congreso; V Meeting of TRACE Project EU; 2009

TRACE EU CONSORTIA

This work is part of activities carried out in Argentina as part of the TRACE project, which is granted by EU (FP6) with the main goal of assessing food provenance considering several endpoints. Among possible hypothesis, we evaluated the follow up of several metals from farm soil to food products as well as changes in stable isotopic composition in foods produced at five different areas of Argentina . In this way, we look to construct a fingerprint of such foodstuffs, pointing out differences among studied areas as well as with similar products produced in other latitudes, like EU. If this idea works, it could be rise to the concept of chemical traceability of foods, which could be a valuable complement for other traceability techniques, reinforcing the confidence of consumers in such foods that can be traced “from farm to fork”