> I am aware that this group is probably mostly devoted
> to clinical diagostics but perhaps some may know whether
> PCR is frequently used in species identification (not
> virus or bacteria, but e.g. for detection of fraudulently
> labelled meat etc.). Any commerical kits for this?
>
PCR is definitely used for this purpose
because I know of one project where someone was using molecular
marker methods to distinguish the origin of marijuana. I should point
out that this was for police forensic purposes rather than any sort
of quality control scheme of the drug dealers.:-) I don't know of any
commercial kits though.
> Since MEDLINE is probably not indexing some relevant
> Journals for this topic, do you have any suggestion for
> a source that I should monitor?
>The sort of journals you might want to look at are Journal of Food
Science and Technology, Food Science etc.
Kevin
Dr Kevin O'Donnell "Work as if you were in the early days
Diagnostics and Molecular Biology of a better nation"
SASA - Alasdair Gray
Edinburgh
