Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement (Jan 2000)
Tracabilité dans la filière animale. Analytical methods for the authentification of agro-food products. Gembloux (Belgium). 20 Oct 1999.
Abstract
Meat channel traceability. The development of new emerging molecular genetic methods allows to determine characteristic patterns of any individual and opens the way to the identification and traceability of individuals and their products by the ""DNA fingerprinting"" procedure. Microsatellite DNA sequences analysis gives very effective information for the individual discrimination and paternity testing. This information can be obtained with traces of biological sample. DNA fingerprinting with microsatellite analysis is now a reliable, practical and cheap method for identification, certification and authentication of transformed and untransformed meat products. The first step in the molecular traceability in the bovine sector requires a hair data bank where the samples can be conserved for many years. This is obtained with the ""pilotheque project"" in relation with the SANITEL control system and seems to be the best way to complete the identification of bovine animals at the production stage. With the new labelling system of bovine meat, DNA fingerprinting associated to SANITEL system will become an objective control criterion at the marketing stage
