3. Conclusions

Gas chromatograph, as a common instrument in most analytical laboratories worldwide, can be successfully applied in authentication and fraud detection procedures of various food and beverage products, such as olive oil and other edible vegetable oils, honey and other bee products, milk and dairy products, cereals and bakery products, meat, fish and seafood, as well as coffee and tea. In this manner, gas chromatograph is coupled to flame ionization detector or single/tandem mass spectrometers. It can be concluded that utilization of a GC device in further development of authentication methodologies could provide us with meaningful results, thus representing a significant contribution to this emerging field in the future.
