Towards a Universal Approach Based on Omics Technologies for the Quality Control of Food

Table 1

Updated list of DNA barcoding case studies in the field of food science and principal stakeholders. Producers are interested in valuing their crops or breeds by molecular certification; distributors are mainly interested in the traceability and authentication of traded products; the interest of consumers is to avoid commercial frauds/species substitutions and have an assurance on food provenance.

Food category	Target analysis	Interested stakeholders			References
		Producer	Distributor	Consumer
Plants	Identification of species and provenance of Mangifera species	X	X	X	[65]
	Traceability of Lycium barbarum (Goji)		X	X	[66]
	Authenticity analyses of berry species	X	X	X	[67]
	Molecular identification of pineapple cultivars	X			[68]
	Identification of cocoa (Theobroma spp.; Malvaceae) cultivars	X			[69]
	Identification of date cultivars	X	X		[70]
	Identification of Capsicum species		X	X	[71]
	Authentication of PDO Fava Santorini (Lathyrus clymenum)	X	X	X	[72]
	Identification of Mediterranean bean species			X	[73]
	Identification and authentication of some Lamiaceae species		X	X	[44]
	Identification of Thymus species			X	[74]
	Authentication of saffron		X	X	[75]
	Authentication of black pepper powder		X	X	[76]
	Identification of Salvia species	X	X	X	[77]
	Authentication of herbal teas	X	X	X	[78]
	Authentication of turmeric powder (Zingiberaceae)		X	X	[79]
	Identification of herbs in beverages			X	[80]
	Authentication of fruits in jams		X	X	[81]
Mushrooms	Mushrooms identification		X	X	[82, 83]
Honey	Characterization of monofloral or multiflower honey	X		X	[42, 61]
Fishes and seafood	Identification of commercial fish species		X	X	[84–86]
	Identification of processed fish products			X	[87–92]
	Labelling authentication of fish products		X	X	[47, 51, 93–96]
	Identification of poisonous seafood species		X	X	[97]
	Identification of crab meat products			X	[98, 99]
	Origin and Authentication of Hairtail Fish and Shrimp	X	X	X	[100]
	Identification of Octopus species			X	[101]
Meat	Labelling authentication of game meat species			X	[45, 102, 103]
	Identification of ground meat products		X	X	[104]
	Identification of bovid species	X	X	X	[105]