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Justification: Different porcine blood proteins have been widely used as emulsifier, binder and/or colorant in processed foods. However, misusage of porcine blood ingredients, such as mislabeling and substitution, can cause religious...
Allergies are a growing problem in industrialized countries, with food allergies affecting 6% of children and 3-4% of adults. Tree nuts are a common cause of food-induced allergy and include walnut, cashew, almond, hazelnut, pistachio, ...
Bovine plasma proteins are used as high quality ingredients in feed for farm animals and also as a binder or colorant in ground beef. Religious observance, as well as recent fears of epidemic bovine spongiform encephalopathy, calls for...
According to the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act, fish is one of the eight major allergen foods. Reliable analytical methods for the detection of food ingredients derived from fish are important for the protection of...
Detection of mammalian tissue in non-mammalian meat or feed products is important for enforcement of food-labeling laws and prevention of the spread of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). This study was conducted to develop...
Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death among all age-related diseases. One potential way to attenuate aging is to reduce the accumulation of aging cells, also called senescent cells. Our lab previously reported that zinc overload...
Egg is one of the major allergens with specific labeling requirements. α-livetin, which also called chicken serum albumin (CSA), is one of the major allergens in egg need to be detected in food matrix. A monoclonal antibody (mA) specific...
The infectivity of bovine spongiform encephalopathy is mainly associated with bovine central nervous system (CNS) tissue, which has been banned from food and feed chain worldwide. Current methods for the detection of CNS tissue are not...
The presence of misbranding and undeclared allergenic residues was the number one cause of food recalls in the United States, between 2012 to 2016. In this study, parvalbumin was used as a model to study the matrix effect on...
Pangasius fish, mainly Pangasius hypophthalmus (tra/swai) and Pangasius bocourti (basa), which belong to the Pangasiidae family of catfish, are imported farm-raised freshwater fish from Asian. Nowadays, the U.S. is one of the largest...
Although the use of hemoglobin-containing food additives is increasing, there is virtually no method available for monitoring their presence in food and dietary products. We have previously developed a competitive ELISA (cELISA) for the...
Due to the nutritional and health benefits, the consumption of fish as an important dietary protein source is increasing. However, the benefits are not always received by everyone. Fish is one of the eight major allergenic foods or food...
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