species identification – MASO-INTERNATIONAL

Problems of falsification and authentication of poultry meat

Authors: Josef Golian and Miloš Mašlej
Keywords: chicken meat, real-time PCR, species identification, turkey meat

The monitoring of the detection kits designed to authenticate chicken and turkey meat turned out that only the first detection kit (primers and TaqMan probe designed to detect the presence of chicken meat) is sufficiently specific and sensitive, but only to 30th cycle of reactions. A reliable level detection of chicken at 100 to 0.01% … [Read more…]

The occurrence and characterisation of lactobacilli in meat products

Authors: Marta Dušková and Renáta Karpíšková
Keywords: antibiotic resistance, broth microdilution method, lactobacillus spp., minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), polymerase chain reaction, species identification

The aim of this study was to monitor the frequency of lactobacilli in ready-to-eat meat products and to determine the species and the antimicrobial susceptibility. Identification of suspect isolates was investigated in this work by polymerase chain reaction. A total of 148 samples of meat products were examined, and lactobacilli were detected in 107 samples … [Read more…]