Handling multiblock data in wine authenticity by sequentially orthogonalized one class partial least squares

New approach to deal with food authentication by modelling methods based on data recorded from different sources is proposed and called OC-PLS, combines an orthogonalization step between the different data sets to eliminate redundant information followed by definition of an acceptance area for a target class by OC-PLS. The proposed method was evaluated in two case studies. The first study used a controlled scenario with simulated data. In the second case study, the approach was applied using UV-VIS and IR data, in order to differentiate Slovak Tokaj Selection wines of high quality from other lower market value wines from the Slovak Tokaj wine region. In both cases, better results were reached than when individual blocks of data were achieved. The proposed method proved to be effective in properly exploring common and distinct information in each data block. The best compromise between sensitivity and selectivity in the prediction step was achieved.