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Detection of Animal-Origin Ingredients in Edible Vegetable Oil by Real-Time PCR

WANG Dan,ZHAO Lin-na,HU Feng-yue,WU Peng,HAN Yue-bei,YANG Hong-lian   

  1. Beijing Municipal Center for Food Safety Monitoring, Beijing 100041, China
  • Online:2013-07-25 Published:2013-08-02

Abstract:

In recent years, vegetable oil adulterated with animal-origin ingredients appeared in the markets. In this work, a
method for the detection of animal-origin ingredients in edible soybean oil by real-time fluorescence PCR was established,
and two primers for animal mitochondria 16S rRNA gene were designed on the basis of data reported in the literature.
For 5 samples of soybean oil adulterated with porcine, beef, sheep, chicken and fish oil, respectively, the animal-origin
mitochondria specific genes were sensitively detected with a detection limit of 0.05%.

Key words: edible vegetable oil, animal-origin ingredient, adulteration, real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)