Forensic Analysis of Potentially Adulterated French Fries Challenge A police officer and his wife purchased French fries from a fast food restaurant. The officer recognized the person preparing the fries as someone he had arrested previously. The wife later noted that the French fries “smelled and tasted funny. ” The police department impounded cooked and uncooked French fries, used and unused cooking oil and a cleaning agent located near the deep fryer and sent them to Battelle for analysis. Solution Researchers at Battelle analyzed the suspect cooking oil and French fries, and control samples. They used sophisticated analytical and statistical methods to determine whether or not the suspect and control samples where chemically equivalent and if any unknown compounds were present in the s

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