TY - JOUR
T1 - Game meat authentication through rare earth elements fingerprinting
AU - Danezis, G. P.
AU - Pappas, A. C.
AU - Zoidis, E.
AU - Papadomichelakis, G.
AU - Hadjigeorgiou, I.
AU - Zhang, P.
AU - Brusic, Vladimir
AU - Georgiou, C. A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/10/23
Y1 - 2017/10/23
N2 - Accurate labelling of meat (e.g. wild versus farmed, geographical and genetic origin, organic versus conventional, processing treatment) is important to inform the consumers about the products they buy. Meat and meat products declared as game have higher commercial value making them target to fraudulent labelling practices and replacement with non-game meat. We have developed and validated a new method for authentication of wild rabbit meat using elemental metabolomics approach. Elemental analysis was performed using rapid ultra-trace multi-element measurement by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Elemental signatures showed excellent ability to discriminate the wild rabbit from non-wild rabbit meat. Our results demonstrate the usefulness of metabolic markers -rare earth signatures, as well as other trace element signatures for game meat authentication.
AB - Accurate labelling of meat (e.g. wild versus farmed, geographical and genetic origin, organic versus conventional, processing treatment) is important to inform the consumers about the products they buy. Meat and meat products declared as game have higher commercial value making them target to fraudulent labelling practices and replacement with non-game meat. We have developed and validated a new method for authentication of wild rabbit meat using elemental metabolomics approach. Elemental analysis was performed using rapid ultra-trace multi-element measurement by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Elemental signatures showed excellent ability to discriminate the wild rabbit from non-wild rabbit meat. Our results demonstrate the usefulness of metabolic markers -rare earth signatures, as well as other trace element signatures for game meat authentication.
KW - Elemental metabolomics
KW - Meat authentication
KW - Pattern recognition
KW - Rare earth elements
KW - Wild rabbit meat
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U2 - 10.1016/j.aca.2017.09.013
DO - 10.1016/j.aca.2017.09.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 29031298
AN - SCOPUS:85030571893
VL - 991
SP - 46
EP - 57
JO - Analytica Chimica Acta
JF - Analytica Chimica Acta
SN - 0003-2670
ER -