Application and progress in high-throughput sequencing technology for meat adulteration detection / 生物工程学报

Adulteration in meat products is a widespread issue that could lead to serious threats to public health and religious violations. Technology that offers rapid, sensitive, accurate and reliable detection of meat species is the key to an effectual monitoring and control against meat adulteration. In recent years, high-throughput sequencing-based DNA metabarcoding technology has developed rapidly. With the characteristics of being high-throughput, highly precise and high-speed, this technology can simultaneously identify multiple species in complex samples, thus offering pronounced advantages in the surveillance of adulteration in meat and meat products. Starting with an introduction of the major developments in the high-throughput sequencing technology in the past two decades, this review provides an overview of the technical characteristics and research methods of DNA metabarcoding, summarizes the application of DNA metabarcoding technology in meat adulteration detection over the last few years, discusses the challenges of using DNA metabarcoding technology in the detection of meat adulteration, and provides future prospects on the development of this technology.

Determination of Aflatoxin B1 in Pharmaceutical Excipient Oil in Soft Capsules by LC-MS/MS / 中国药师

Objective:To assay aflatoxin B1 in the oil as a pharmaceutical excipient in soft capsules by LC-MS/MS. Methods:Aflatoxin B1 was extracted from the peanut oil in soft capsules by the solvent composed of methanol and 0. 1% formic acid solution, and then centrifuged and the supernatant was purified by neutral alumina cartridges and tested after the concentration with the mobile phase consisting of methanol and 0. 1% formic acid solution with gradient elution at the flow rate of 0. 3 ml·min-1 . 25μl of the tested solu-tion was injected for the analysis at the column temperature of 30℃. Electrospray ionization ( ESI) source was applied and operated in the position ion mode. Multiple reactions monitoring ( MRM) mode was used to quantify the samples. Results:Aflatoxin B1 was in good linearity within the range of 0. 098-1. 960 μg·L-1(r=0. 999 5). The limit of detection was 0. 05 μg·L-1. The average sampling recovery was 97. 73% (n=6) with RSD of 4. 625%. Conclusion:The method is proved to be sensitive, accurate, specified and re-producible, which is referential for the assay of aflatoxin B1 in oily preparations.