Pre-Normative and Co-Normative Activities for Oils and Fats

Cluster

Food Technology and Human Nutrition (TAN)

Description

Within the setting of the rules, the activities developed can be divided as follows. a) Pre-normative activities: development of new analysis methods or modification of existing methods. Purpose of the activity: evaluation of the validity and reliability of the subject to be standardised. b) Co-normative activities: validation and standardization of methods developed in the pre-normative phase. Purpose: evaluation of the performances of the methods, evaluation of repeatability, reproducibility, measurement uncertainty of methods and procedures which will become international standards/norms/regulations. c) Laws and regulations: harmonization. Purpose: presentation of the methods/standards developed for possible approval by the different competent authorities (EU, Codex Alimentarius, various supranational technical bodies, e.g. International Olive Council.

Research subjects

Sviluppo di metodi analitici basati su tecniche separative: validazione “in home” del metodo: valutazione di recupero (quando applicabile), linearità di risposta, ripetibilità, LOD e LOQ.
Metodi applicabili alla misurazione del contenuto assoluto e percentuale di componenti maggioritari quali i trigliceridi e minori, quali quello dalla frazione insaponificabile: steroli, tocoferoli, sostanze fenoliche.
Determinazione quali quantitativa della frazione volatile sia di oli e grassi al quali, sia della frazione lipidica presente in altri alimenti.