The market for premium oils has grown rapidly over recent years and these oils can be subject to adulteration with a variety of cheaper oils. It is also possible that oils can become contaminated with other during manufacturing, processing and transportation.
Checking the authenticity of oils used or supplied by you can be crucial to the development of a due diligence defence and can protect you from fraud.
Our Lipids Laboratory has considerable expertise in detecting the adulteration and contamination of commodity and premium oils. We are one of the few laboratories that can perform the chemical methods of analysis required to authenticate olive oil to the EC Commission Regulation No 2568/91 and amendments.
Other oils include:
- Borage
- Evening primrose
- Sesame
- Almond
- Walnut