Friday, August 21, 2015

Research on meat species shows mislabeling in commercial products

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/cu-cur082015.php

Public Release: 20-Aug-2015
Chapman University research on meat species shows mislabeling in commercial products
Researchers in Chapman University's Food Science Program have just published 2 separate studies on meat mislabeling in consumer commercial products
Chapman University

ORANGE, Calif. - Researchers in Chapman University's Food Science Program have just published two separate studies on meat mislabeling in consumer commercial products. One study focused on identification of species found in ground meat products, and the other focused on game meat species labeling. Both studies examined products sold in the U.S. commercial market; and both study outcomes identified species mislabeling among the product samples.

In the study on identification of species found in ground meat products, 48 samples were analyzed and 10 were found to be mislabeled. Of those 10, nine were found to have additional meat species and one sample was mislabeled in its entirety. Additionally, horsemeat, which is illegal to sell in the United States, was detected in two of the samples.

"Although extensive meat species testing has been carried out in Europe in light of the 2013 horsemeat scandal, there has been limited research carried out on this topic in the United States," said Rosalee Hellberg, Ph.D., assistant professor at Chapman University and co-author on both studies. "To our knowledge, the most recent U.S. meat survey was published in 1995."

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