Background Meat adulteration poses significant public health risks, violates religious and
cultural practices, and raises moral and ethical concerns. The lateral flow strip (LFS) …

In the global food processing industry, accidental contamination of pork components is
widespread, and this occurrence raises concerns about the integrity of health-conscious …

Abstract The “Horsemeat Scandal” makes people pay more attention to the meat
authenticity. However, expensive equipment, complicated operations, and professional …

Adulteration of food ingredients, particularly replacement of high-value milk with low-cost
milk, affects food safety. For rapid and accurate identification of the possible adulterating …

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) requires precise temperature control for detection of
nucleic acids (NA) in biological samples. Hence, the requirement of thermo-cycler limits the …

The evaluation of mutton adulteration faces new challenges because of mutton flavour
essence, which achieves a similar flavour between the adulterant and mutton. Hence …

Species identification is one of the critical challenges, which researchers in the animal
investigation are facing under various objective scopes, such as cell culture in medicine, the …

The authentication of animal species is an important issue due to an increasing trend of
adulteration and mislabeling of animal species in processed meat products. Polymerase …

Fast, sensitive, and easy-to-use methods for detecting DNA related to food adulteration,
health, religious, and commercial purposes are evolving. In this research, a label-free …

Meat and meat products are one of the valuable foods that provide a variety of essential
nutrients for human beings, and their authentication is of great significance for guaranteeing …