Product Specification

Analytes

Beef, Lamb, Pork, Turkey

Comments

The chicken test material will be adulterated with one or more from: beef, lamb, pork and turkey. The test material will be freeze-dried and will require re-constitution.

Test Description

Identification of substitute meats in a minced (ground) meat matrix.

Deliberate food adulteration for economic gain is increasing, with high profile issues making national or international news. There is now a greater emphasis on authenticity testing with a number of international projects addressing the analytical problems. The Fapas authenticity and adulteration proficiency tests allow laboratories to assess their detection capability for undeclared high level substitutions. Chicken is widely consumed in various processed forms and chicken authenticity requires manufacturers to achieve confidence in the quality of their supply chain produce.

Achieving effective testing capabilities, with accurate and timely results, requires a large amount of quality control processes to both track your progress, and highlight any areas of improvement. Fapas proficiency tests offer a comparable snapshot of your current testing capabilities, from which to evaluate your testing ability against other testing laboratories in your industries.

Proficiency tests continue to provide an effective benchmark of your testing capabilities across specific analyte/matrix combinations. Fapas proficiency tests can be used in tandem with Fapas quality control materials, to track your testing abilities across a range of testing environments or to standardise your in house testing methods, such as through instrumentation verification or staff training procedures.

The associated quality control material is FCAA3-MRP14QC Authenticity of Chicken Quality Control Material which can be found here.

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