Finding the fake booze
Ever wondered what Raman spectrometry is? Here’s how it can find out what’s in a bottle without opening it.
Drink fraud is a serious business. In a recent joint operation lasting four months, Interpol and Europol seized 26.4 million litres of counterfeit alcohol. Manchester-based scientists recently discovered a solution to this using Raman spectrometry. Kristy Turner gives the full story, with the basics of how Raman spectroscopy works and its inventor.
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