Product Authenticity: Identifying Species

Adulteration of food products with anything that is not supposed to be in them is undesirable for safety, health, religious, cultural, and economic reasons. Methods for detecting adulteration of meat, poultry, and seafood with other species have been developed over the years, arising with increased impetus from the 2013 incident in Europe in which products labeled as ground beef were found to contain undeclared horse meat. Other incidences of meat species adulteration have occurred around the wo…