Affiliation:
1. Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences
2. National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Abstract
Abstract
Mislabeling of hamburgers with undeclared chicken has frequently been reported. A fast TaqMan real-time PCR assay was developed to estimate chicken percentage in raw and heat-treated hamburgers in the current work. The calibration curve was plotted with the normalization approach (ΔCt; the difference calculation between chicken-cytb and eukaryotic-18S rRNA assays) for five reference chicken mixtures (100-0.01%) using a duplex TaqMan-qPCR protocol. The R2 and efficiency values of the normalized curve were 0.9993 and ~100%, respectively. In the validation plan, analysis of model samples (raw, oven-cooked and autoclaved) under repeatability conditions represented the bias values within the range of ±25% and RSD values <25%, except for a few autoclaved model samples. Therefore, this developed and validated model could be considered a useful and reliable method for estimating chicken species (with a sensitivity of 0.01%) in raw and cooked hamburgers.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC