Scientists at the university of Munster and AB Sciex have developed a meat speciation method for detecting pig and horse contamination. The method is based on the liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectormetry.
For Muslim and Jewish communities it is critical to know whether foods are permitted to eat('halal' and 'kosher') due to Islamic or Jewish beliefs. For those communities, which consists of 23% of the global population, scientists at the German university and AB Sciex have developed the method to detect meat contamination.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Humpf, head of the institut fur lebensmittelchemie (Institue for Food Chemistry), university of Munster said:
"Scientists in routine testing laboratories worldwide will now be able to use this method to detect and distinguish trace amounts of pig and horse in many food products."
Species authentication is becoming more important due to the drastic increases of fraudulent substitution with meat from cheap species, for economical reasons. Compared to traditional detecting methods, it is more efficient as it can detect markers of multiple, differnt animal species at once.
AB Sciex, a member of GFSF(Global Food Safety Forum), has previously developed methods for protein screening, including techniques for detecting allergens such as eggs, milk, sesame seeds, nuts and mustard simultaneously in food samples.
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