Table 3 |
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Application of the described methods: species discrimination of tuna and scomber species in food product. |
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Sample |
Species Declared |
N° of samples/batch |
Species identified (fragment AB) |
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Canned tuna |
10 |
10 T. albacares |
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10 |
9 T. albacares |
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1 T. thynnus |
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10 |
10 T. albacares |
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T. albacares |
100 |
2 T. albacares |
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72 T. obesus |
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5 K. pelamis |
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19 mix T. obesus/K. pelamis |
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2 mix T. albacares/T. obesus |
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10 |
10 T. albacares |
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10 |
10 T. albacares |
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10 |
10 T. albacares |
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10 |
9 T. albacares |
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1 new variant (Thunnus spp.) |
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10 |
9 T. albacares |
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1 new variant (Thunnus spp.) |
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8 |
8 T. albacares |
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1 |
1 T. obesus |
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2 |
2 T. albacares |
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Tuna salad |
T. albacares |
2 |
(*) 2 K. pelamis |
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Tuna sauce (20% tuna) |
T. albacares |
8 |
(*) Mix of species (different genera) |
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Canned scomber |
S. japonicus |
2 |
2 S. colias |
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(*) Only fragment B A total of 203 samples of processed food were delivered in 15 batches by industrial retailers for the control of species content and analyzed for polymorphism in fragment AB of CytB. |
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Botti and Giuffra BMC Biotechnology 2010 10:60 doi:10.1186/1472-6750-10-60 |
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