outlets could then be given verification and know why they are paying money for and . put could appropriate fine. methods and for to really be proved. vaga named in the netherlands is home to one of europe s leading research facilities for food safety. in the laboratories of the rick elt institute food chemist saskia family group is working on methods of distinguishing organic foods from those produced conventionally. amos to make fraudulent labeling impossible. to. know products for organic products and to protect the farmers that are involved in this organic business we have to make sure that there are fair practices and consumers are getting what i paid for so that s why we need matter it s that can
authenticate whether a product is or not. saskia found root places her faith in statistics she has analyzed the average composition of the yolk of an organic egg and amassed a vast amount of data the theory is that everything which influences an egg is noticeable in the yolk in the form of an analytical fingerprint the analytical fingerprint of fanatic when we would try to separate you from conventional x. is based on d.n.a. analysis of the yellow months and because we are looking at different yellow pink ones we call that an analytical fingerprint and together with statistics that calculation matters we try to discriminate between the group of the organic x. and the conventional x. because this pattern is fingerprint difference. that may be all the correct risk. van roots team collect data to determine