title: Can the dietary element content of virgin argan oils really be used for adulteration detection?
abstract: Levels of eight dietary elements were assessed by ICP-AES in virgin edible and beauty argan oil samples prepared from four remote locations of the argan forest, and over a three-year period. The data showed sufficiently little variability to assess that all argan oil samples present, in terms of dietary elements, a similar composition, independently from the tree location within the argan forest. Therefore, adulteration detection by trace element analysis in edible and beauty argan oil is a method that can be generalised.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University Mohammed V-Agdal Rabat, Morocco. Faez89@hotmail.fr
authors.forename: Faez A E
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Mohammed
authors.forename: Rahma
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bchitou
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bouhaouss
authors.forename: Saïd
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gharby
authors.forename: Hicham
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Harhar
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guillaume
authors.forename: Zoubida
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Charrouf
mesh_terms: D003358:Cosmetics / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000592:standards; D010938:Plant Oils / Q000032:analysis* / Q000592:standards; D011786:Quality Control; D029632:Sapotaceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D014131:Trace Elements / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D003358:Cosmetics; D010938:Plant Oils; D014131:Trace Elements; C555574:argan oil