Food traceability is in the news—in articles ranging from food safety to the consumer’s right to know. To strengthen trust in their products, food producer have voluntary built traceability systems and certification schemes to track food ingredients throughout the food chain process from producer to retailer. Traceability facilitates traceback for food safety and quality and gives an added value to the brand.
DNAVision proposes DNA-based traceability solutions to validate traceability systems or certification schemes in the food industry. These tests provide proof-evidence on the origin of the meat product and trace its source at any stage of processing and protect reliably against falsification.
Starting from blood, skin, hair with follicle, ear, feathers with quill, a unique genetic profile is made from each individual, using the microsatellite markers recommended by the International Society of Animal Genetic (ISAG). A first sample is taken during any live stage or at slaughterhouse. A second sample is further taken from any foodstuff to evaluate the traceability system. The genetic profile of both samples is compared and DNAVision is able to ensure with high degree of confidence (>99,99 %) if both samples come from the same individual or not.
Genetic profile technology can also be applied in breeding programs to prove parental-offspring relationships in many species: cattle, swine, sheep, dog, horse, cat, deer …
For example, we are routinely validating cattle tracking systems from slaughterhouse to end-product. In cattle breeding programs, we have also certified parentage relationships.
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Molecular methods are useful tools to track specific bacterial or yeast strains throughout the food processing. Upon request, DNAVision has already developed DNA markers allowing the unambiguous identification of a particular strain having probiotic or biocontrol properties. Those developments were done with inegalable speed and accuracy. Those unambiguous identifications were particularly useful to track and to quantify the population of these strains during food processing or conservation.
These know-how and technology have also several industrial applications:
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