Application of NIR Spectroscopy for the Valorisation of Cork By-Products: A Feasibility Study over the Screening and Discrimination of Chemical Compounds of Interest.

"Conflicts of Interest Author Joana Rocha e Silva was employed by the company Dimas & Silva. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The company and the European Regional Development Fund were not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article or the decision to submit it for publication. "

"This work was financed by national funds from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Northern Regional Operational Programme (NORTE2020) under the project 47239—Cork2Cosmetic (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-047239) in co-promotion with the company Dimas & Silva. This research was also supported by national funds from FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through the projects UIDB/04423/2020 and UIDP/04423/2020 (Group of Marine Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry-CIIMAR), UIDP/04378/2020 and UIDB/04378/2020 (Research Unit on Applied Molecular Biosciences—UCIBIO), UIDB/50006/2020 and UIDP/50006/2020. It was also supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the COMPETE—Programa Operacional Fatores de Competitividade (POFC) program in the framework of the program, PT2020, and the project LA/P/0140/2020 of the Associate Laboratory Institute for Health and Bioeconomy—i4HB. C. Pinto and L. Rego acknowledge their research fellowship (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-047239), fully supported by national funding from project 47239-Cork2Cosmetic (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-047239)."