Economic adulteration of fruit beverages

The adulteration of fruit juices and fruit juice – based beverages has, for many years, been an economic problem endured by the consumer and by the international food industry. The fruit juice indus­try is market driven and must maintain the confidence of the consumer as to the purity of its product. Lass of confi­dence, as by publicized adul­teration issues, results in millions of dollars of lost revenue and/or may result in the complete col­lapse of a specific company.

7 pages
Author: S. Nagy
Published in FRUIT PROCESSING 4/1997