Determination The Proportion of Chicken and Beef In Meat Products Using Some Commercial Kits

Animal food sources are vital to human nutrition. A balanced diet should contain adequate and high-quality food items. Proper labeling is important for human health as well as for fair trade in meat industry. Since DNA is not affected by physical and chemical food processing techniques, DNA-based kits are produced to determine species and their proportions in meat products. The aim of our study was to examine the suitability of commercially available kits for Turkey notified meat products and to investigate proportion of chicken and beef in meat products. Real Time PCR kits using TaqMan probe were used to determine the amount of chicken and beef in meat products. As a result of the study, the slope and correlation coefficient criteria of the RT-PCR reactions of the kit were appropriate, but sensitivity of quantitative determinations of different chicken and beef meat products were not sufficient