A digital PCR method for identifying and quantifying adulteration of meat species in raw and processed food.

Meat adulteration is a worldwide concern. In this paper, a new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method was developed for the quantitative determination of the presence of chicken in sheep and goat meat products. Meanwhile, a constant (multiplication factor) was introduced to transform the ratio of copy n...

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Main Authors: Junan Ren, Tingting Deng, Wensheng Huang, Ying Chen, Yiqiang Ge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5358868?pdf=render