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Identification and quantification of meat product ingredients by whole-genome metagenomics (All-Food-Seq)
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Complex food matrices bear the risk of intentional or accidental admixture of non-declared species. Moreover, declared components can be present in false proportions, since expensive taxa might be exchanged for cheaper ones. We have previously reported that PCR-free metagenomic sequencing of total DNA extracted from sausage samples combined with bioinformatic analysis (termed All-Food-Seq, AFS) can be a valuable screening tool to identify the taxon composition of food ingredients. Here, we illustrate this principle by analysing regional Doner kebap samples, which revealed unexpected and unlabelled poultry and plant components in three of five cases. In addition, we systematically apply AFS to a broad set of reference meat material of known composition (i.e. reference sausages) to evaluate quantification accuracy and potential limitations. We include a detailed analysis of the effect of different food matrices and the possibility of false-positive sequence read assignment to closely related species, and we compare AFS quantification results to quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) and droplet digital PCR (ddPCR). AFS emerges as a potent PCR-free screening tool, which can detect multiple target species of different kingdoms of life within a single assay. Mathematical calibration accounting for pronounced matrix effects can significantly improve AFS quantification accuracy. In comparison, AFS performs better than classical qPCR, and is on par with ddPCR.
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Metagenomic studies have been mainly conducted on single food types and on limited sample sizes, hindering inter-study integrative analyses currently available only for other environments such as the human gut.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hellmann, S. L., Ripp, F., Bikar, S.-E., Schmidt, B., Köppel, R., & Hankeln, T.
- Affiliations
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Hankeln, Thomas
- Venue
- European Food Research and Technology
- Published
- 2019-11-16
- Volume
- 246
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 193-200
- ISSN
- 0373-0174 (ISSN-L)
- 1438-2377
- 1438-2385
- OpenAlex
- W2987833958
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- European Food Research and Technology (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (2816503814)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Identification and Quantification in Food
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Keywords
- sausage, matrix effects, calibration
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