Meat adulteration, mainly for the purpose of economic pursuit, is widespread and leads to
serious public health risks, religious violations, and moral loss. Rapid, effective, accurate …

Background The global halal industry is currently the fastest growing consumer segments in
the world, estimated to be worth over one trillion dollars. It has become a powerful market …

Food falsification has direct impact on public health, religious faith, fair-trades and wildlife.
For the first time, here we described a multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay for the …

Species identification in meat products has grown in interest in recent years since these
foodstuffs are susceptible targets for fraudulent labelling. In this work, a real-time PCR …

A new approach, based on the usage of Raman spectroscopy in combination with
chemometrics, was developed for the rapid determination of beef adulteration with …

Food forgery is one of the most articulated socio-economic concerns which contributed to
increase people's awareness on what they eat and how and where it is produced …

Meat and meat products are widely consumed worldwide as a source of high-quality
proteins, essential amino acids, vitamins, and necessary minerals. The acceptability of Halal …

High‐quality DNA extracts are imperative for downstream applications in molecular
identification. Most processed food products undergo heat treatments causing DNA …

Considering that the authentication of food contents is one of the most important issues for
the food quality sector, and given the increasing demand for transparency in the meat …

The development of highly sensitive and quantitative tools to identify undeclared pork meat
is very important to authenticate processed meat products and, particularly, in the case of …