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Review
. 2020 Jul;19(4):2256-2296.
doi: 10.1111/1541-4337.12579. Epub 2020 Jun 11.

Comparative review and the recent progress in detection technologies of meat product adulteration

Yun-Cheng Li  1   2 , Shu-Yan Liu  1 , Fan-Bing Meng  1   2 , Da-Yu Liu  1   2 , Yin Zhang  1   2 , Wei Wang  2 , Jia-Min Zhang  2
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Review

Comparative review and the recent progress in detection technologies of meat product adulteration

Yun-Cheng Li et al. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

Meat adulteration, mainly for the purpose of economic pursuit, is widespread and leads to serious public health risks, religious violations, and moral loss. Rapid, effective, accurate, and reliable detection technologies are keys to effectively supervising meat adulteration. Considering the importance and rapid advances in meat adulteration detection technologies, a comprehensive review to summarize the recent progress in this area and to suggest directions for future progress is beneficial. In this review, destructive meat adulteration technologies based on DNA, protein, and metabolite analyses and nondestructive technologies based on spectroscopy were comparatively analyzed. The advantages and disadvantages, application situations of these technologies were discussed. In the future, determining suitable indicators or markers is particularly important for destructive methods. To improve sensitivity and save time, new interdisciplinary technologies, such as biochips and biosensors, are promising for application in the future. For nondestructive techniques, convenient and effective chemometric models are crucial, and the development of portable devices based on these technologies for onsite monitoring is a future trend. Moreover, omics technologies, especially proteomics, are important methods in laboratory detection because they enable multispecies detection and unknown target screening by using mass spectrometry databases.

Keywords: adulteration; analytical methods; destructive technologies; meat; nondestructive technologies.

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