{"id":2006,"date":"2023-05-18T15:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T19:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:04:59","slug":"carleton-researcher-developing-tech-to-identify-food-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2023\/carleton-researcher-developing-tech-to-identify-food-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Researcher &#8211; Yaxi Hu developing tech to identify food fraud!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Researcher &#8211; Yaxi Hu developing tech to identify food fraud!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading banner__title\">Do You Know What You\u2019re Eating?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University chemistry researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/yaxi-hu-july-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yaxi Hu\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fact-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food Analytical Chemistry and Technology (FACT) Lab<\/a> is helping us understand what we\u2019re actually eating. She is developing portable, easy-to-use testing techniques for assessing food safety, quality and authenticity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/investigating-food-fraud-400x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/investigating-food-fraud-400x227.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/investigating-food-fraud-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/investigating-food-fraud-240x136.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/investigating-food-fraud-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/investigating-food-fraud-360x204.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/investigating-food-fraud.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/yaxi-hu-july-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yaxi\u2019s<\/a> interdisciplinary research program aims at integrating advanced analytical chemistry, nanomaterials, microfluidic \u201clab-on-a-chip\u201d platform, bioinformatics and machine learning to develop the next generation techniques for food analysis and thus to better ensure the food safety, quality and authenticity from farm to fork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/tech-identifying-food-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here!<\/a> to read more about Yaxi&#8217;s research work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Know What You\u2019re Eating? &nbsp; Carleton University chemistry researcher Yaxi Hu\u2019s&nbsp;Food Analytical Chemistry and Technology (FACT) Lab is helping us understand what we\u2019re actually eating. She is developing portable, easy-to-use testing techniques for assessing food safety, quality and authenticity. Yaxi\u2019s interdisciplinary research program aims at integrating advanced analytical chemistry, nanomaterials, microfluidic \u201clab-on-a-chip\u201d platform, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}