Current methods for seafood authenticity testing in Europe: Is there a need for harmonisation?

Food Control

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 95-100

  Griffiths, Andrew M ^a   Sotelo, Carmen G ^b   Mendes, Rogério ^c   Pérez Martín, Ricardo I ^b   Schröder, Ute ^d   Shorten, Marc ^e   Silva, Helena A ^c   Verrez Bagnis, Véronique ^f   Mariani, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

^c Unit of Upgrading of Fishery and Aquaculture Products (U VPPA)   (Portugal)

^d Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Nutrition   (Germany)

^e Bantry General Hospital   (Ireland)

^f IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

DNA barcoding; Fisheries; Food testing; Forensically informative nucleotide sequencing; Species identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904785741     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2014.04.020     Document Type: Article

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