What the fish? Tracing the geographical origin of fish using NIR spectroscopy.

Food authentication is a growing concern with rising complexities of the food supply network, with fish being an easy target of food fraud. In this regard, NIR spectroscopy has been used as an efficient tool for food authentication. This article reviews the latest research advances on NIR based fish authentication. The process from sampling/sample preparation to data analysis has been covered. Special attention was given to NIR spectra pre-processing and its unsupervised and supervised analysis. Sampling is an important aspect of traceability study and samples chosen ought to be a true representative of the population. NIR spectra acquired is often laden with overlapping bands, scattering and highly multicollinear. It needs adequate pre-processing to remove all undesirable features. The pre-processing technique can make or break a model and thus need a trial-and-error approach to find the best fit. As for spectral analysis and modelling, multicollinear nature of NIR spectra demands unsupervised analysis (PCA) to compact the features before application of supervised multivariate techniques such as LDA, PLS-DA, QDA etc. Machine learning approach of modelling has shown promising result in food authentication modelling and negates the need for unsupervised analysis before modelling.

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The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Nidhi Dalal reports financial support was provided by 10.13039/100014439Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA). If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.