Spatial fingerprinting: horizontal fusion of multi-dimensional bio-tracers as solution to global food provenance problems

DOI10.5281/ZENODO.4722042Zenodo4722042MaRDI QIDQ6673146FDOQ6673146

Dataset published at Zenodo repository.

Kevin Cazelles, Emelia Myles-Gonzalez, Kevin McCann, Marie Gutgesell, Tyler Zemlak, Robert Hanner

Publication date: 26 April 2021

Description

Building the capacity of efficiently determining the provenance of food products represents a crucial step towards the sustainability of the global food system. Whether it is for enforcing existing legislation or providing reliable information to consumers, technologies to verify geographical origin of food are being actively developed. Biological tracers (bio-tracers) such as DNA and stable isotopes have recently demonstrated their potential for determining provenance. Here we show that the data fusion of bio-tracers is a very powerful technique for geographical provenance discrimination. Based on 90 individuals of Sockeye salmon that originate from 3 different areas for which we measured 17 bio-tracers, we demonstrate that increasing the combined bio-tracers results in stronger the discriminatory power. The generality of our results are mathematically demonstrated under simplifying assumptions and numerically confirmed in our case study using three commonly used supervised learning techniques.

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