Can DNA analysis of a piece of cooked meat determine the source animal? A local restaurant serves chicken that is unlike any chicken I've ever seen.

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Can DNA analysis of a piece of cooked meat determine the source animal? A local restaurant serves chicken that is unlike any chicken I've ever seen.

Question #145316. Asked by goatlockerjoe.
Last updated Jan 21 2018.
Originally posted Jan 18 2018 7:42 PM.

looney_tunes

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This paper says so, but it is tedious - they think they have a better method than the traditional one. It can be used to separate and identify the species in a mixed meat sample, and on cooked meats.

In 2012, a paper published in Food Control (4) described a real-time PCR-based method for the identification of pork, chicken, turkey, beef and lamb in mixed meat and processed food samples.

https://www.promega.com.au/resources/pubhub/tpub_130-analyzing-dna-in-food-samples/

This paper refers to identification of DNA in cooked and canned products.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22055225

Jan 18 2018, 9:32 PM

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