Identification of pork derivatives in food products by species-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for halal verification

• Main Authors: Che Man, Yaakob, A. A., Aida, Ahmad Raus, Raha, Radu, Son
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 2007
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/4663/1/Identification%20of%20pork%20derivatives%20in%20food%20products%20by%20species.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/4663/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2006.05.004
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Pork identification in four types of food products, which are sausages and the casings, bread and biscuits, using species-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of a conserved region in the mitochondrial (mt) 12S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene was developed. Genomic DNA of the food products w...