Using chemical and DNA marker analysis to authenticate a high-value food, manuka honey

ARTICLE OPEN Using chemical and DNA marker analysis to authenticate a high-value food, manuka honey Claire M. McDonald 1 , Suzanne E. Keeling 1 , Mark J. Brewer 2 and Steve C. Hathaway1 Ensuring the authenticity of food is a rapidly emerging issue, especially in regard to high-value products that are marketed through increasingly complex global food chains. With the ever-increasing potential for mislabeling, fraud and adulteration, governments are increasingly having to invest in, and assure,...