Provenance on a plate: The use of stable isotope and trace element (SITE) analyses and complementary screening techniques to confirm the authenticity and origin of food

Simon Kelly is a Food Safety Specialist at the United Nations Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture in Vienna, Austria. He has been actively involved in applied and adaptive research using stable isotopes, elemental analyses, and complementary techniques for over 25 years to determine the authenticity of food, including the presence of adulterants and their geographical and production origin. Dr. Kelly previously participated in several major European food authenticity projects. He coordinates several international projects to build food authenticity research and technical capacity in developing countries, emphasising simplifying and improving accessibility to analytical methods. He previously held positions at the UK’s Food and Environment Research Agency and the Institute of Food Research. Dr. Kelly is a member of the UK’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Food Authenticity Methodology Working Group. He gained his degree in Chemistry from Anglia Polytechnic in 1992. He completed his PhD in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in 2002, where he holds an honorary lectureship. Dr. Kelly is a Chartered Chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.