Monthly Archives: March 2019

NGS technology to check the label

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) in collaboration with Identigen has developed a scanning tool based on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology to check that the ingredients indicated in the label correspond with those actually determined in the food. The technology used provides the capacity to detect the presence of undeclared species. In the…

Fighting against fraud in seafood products

SEATRACES consortium is working in the developing of tools for detecting and controling seafood fraud. Some published results of the previous LABELFISH consortium demonstrated the potential of NGS to detect unexpected or undeclared species in seafood products, such as those that could be present in canned tuna or surimi products (Kappel et al., 2017 and…