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Nurraifana Abdul Rashid - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Short Amplicon-Length PCR Assay Targeting Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene for the Detection of Feline Meats in Burger Formulation
Food Analytical Methods, 2016Co-Authors: Md. Eaqub Ali, Md. Al Amin, Md. Abdur Razzak, Sharifah Bee Abd Hamid, Md. Mahfujur Rahman, Nurraifana Abdul RashidAbstract:Consumption or mixing of feline ingredients in halal and Kosher Foods is forbidden, and various diseases such as SARS, anthrax, and hepatitis could be transmitted through feline meats. However, since feline species are abundant across the world without any market price and their meats are consumed in exotic Foods, the chances of their adulteration in common meats are very high. Several recent reports appreciated short amplicon-length PCR assays for species authentication in processed Foods assuming that shorter targets would be thermodynamically more stable than longer ones under natural decomposition and food processing treatments. However, scientific evidence to prove this hypothesis is rarely documented. For the first time, we developed here a PCR assay targeting only a 69-bp site of feline mitochondrial cytochrome b gene, and its authenticity was confirmed by Alu I restriction enzyme followed by its separation and detection on a lab-on-a-chip-based automated electrophoretic system. The exceptional target stability was systematically proven over the previously documented shortest target (108 bp) under extreme autoclaving and microwaving treatments both in pure and mixed matrices. The assay specificity was tested against 14 terrestrial and aquatic species commonly consumed in Foods, and no cross-species detection was observed. The limit of detection of the assay was 0.1 pg of feline DNA and 0.01 % ( w / w ) of feline meats in raw meats and cooked burgers, respectively.
Adrian Evans - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Halal Food Handbook - Establishing a Dialogue Between Science, Society and Religion About Religious Slaughter: The Experience of the European Funded Project Dialrel
The Halal Food Handbook, 2020Co-Authors: Mara Miele, John Lever, Adrian EvansAbstract:The Dialrel project represented an opportunity for a dialogue between the Muslim and Jewish religious authorities, the scientific authorities, the representatives of many animal welfare organizations, and representatives of the meat supply chain to address the welfare of farm animals at time of killing and the transparency of the meat markets. An important part of the Dialrel project involved gaining a better understanding of the views and concerns of Muslim and Jewish consumers across Europe. In particular, the project sought to expand knowledge about the range of requirements and expectations that Muslim and Jewish consumers had about halal and Kosher Foods, and how these varied across countries and between different socio‐cultural groups. The research also explored consumers’ knowledge and views of religious slaughtering practices, with specific attention given to the issue of stunning.
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establishing a dialogue between science society and religion about religious slaughter the experience of the european funded project dialrel
The Halal Food Handbook, 2020Co-Authors: Mara Miele, John Lever, Adrian EvansAbstract:The Dialrel project represented an opportunity for a dialogue between the Muslim and Jewish religious authorities, the scientific authorities, the representatives of many animal welfare organizations, and representatives of the meat supply chain to address the welfare of farm animals at time of killing and the transparency of the meat markets. An important part of the Dialrel project involved gaining a better understanding of the views and concerns of Muslim and Jewish consumers across Europe. In particular, the project sought to expand knowledge about the range of requirements and expectations that Muslim and Jewish consumers had about halal and Kosher Foods, and how these varied across countries and between different socio‐cultural groups. The research also explored consumers’ knowledge and views of religious slaughtering practices, with specific attention given to the issue of stunning.
Elliott Weiss - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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packaging jewishness novelty and tradition in Kosher food packaging
Design Issues, 2004Co-Authors: Elliott WeissAbstract:Many packaged food companies construct their product identities using mythological tropes as a means to link their products with a particular idea. By linking their product to notions of tradition, the manufacturers of mass-produced Foods obfuscate the real and eminently modern conditions that make packaged Foods possible. References to tradition help to obscure the paradoxical effect in which the very mass production processes that make a packaged product possible are the same processes responsible for eroding traditional production methods and practices. The commodification of tradition through marketing is a way for makers of packaged Foods to endow their products with the kind of artisanal aura that, by definition, is unavailable to objects of mass production. Since any actual link to the premodern past has been disrupted by the effects of modernization, advertisers construct mythical product genealogies as substitutes for real histories.2 This paper examines the role of nostalgia in the design of package labels. It will focus on a particular phenomenon within a particular category of products. I am interested in the dissemination of cultural values through the mass market, specifically, in the commodification of Jewishness or yiddishkeit through the use of mythological devices in Kosher packaged Foods. To a certain degree, packaged Kosher Foods exist as a paradox. It embodies the dichotomies of traditional lifestyles in a modem world. It is the reification of an ancient ritual and, at the same time, an emblem of modern convenience. It is the intersection of the rational and irrational, the practical and impractical, and the esoteric and the banal. One might wonder if it isn't the stark contrast of values expressed in the gesture of packaging and marketing something so symbolic as Kosher Foods that makes the arena of the label so inviting to nostalgic expressions. As the above quote of Roland Barthes shows, however, a longing for the past, represented though a dramatization of culinary culture, is not exclusively a product of a Jewish-American worldview. Barthes saw nostalgia as a sign of the modern condi1 Roland Barthes, from "Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food
Md. Eaqub Ali - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Short Amplicon-Length PCR Assay Targeting Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene for the Detection of Feline Meats in Burger Formulation
Food Analytical Methods, 2016Co-Authors: Md. Eaqub Ali, Md. Al Amin, Md. Abdur Razzak, Sharifah Bee Abd Hamid, Md. Mahfujur Rahman, Nurraifana Abdul RashidAbstract:Consumption or mixing of feline ingredients in halal and Kosher Foods is forbidden, and various diseases such as SARS, anthrax, and hepatitis could be transmitted through feline meats. However, since feline species are abundant across the world without any market price and their meats are consumed in exotic Foods, the chances of their adulteration in common meats are very high. Several recent reports appreciated short amplicon-length PCR assays for species authentication in processed Foods assuming that shorter targets would be thermodynamically more stable than longer ones under natural decomposition and food processing treatments. However, scientific evidence to prove this hypothesis is rarely documented. For the first time, we developed here a PCR assay targeting only a 69-bp site of feline mitochondrial cytochrome b gene, and its authenticity was confirmed by Alu I restriction enzyme followed by its separation and detection on a lab-on-a-chip-based automated electrophoretic system. The exceptional target stability was systematically proven over the previously documented shortest target (108 bp) under extreme autoclaving and microwaving treatments both in pure and mixed matrices. The assay specificity was tested against 14 terrestrial and aquatic species commonly consumed in Foods, and no cross-species detection was observed. The limit of detection of the assay was 0.1 pg of feline DNA and 0.01 % ( w / w ) of feline meats in raw meats and cooked burgers, respectively.
Mara Miele - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Halal Food Handbook - Establishing a Dialogue Between Science, Society and Religion About Religious Slaughter: The Experience of the European Funded Project Dialrel
The Halal Food Handbook, 2020Co-Authors: Mara Miele, John Lever, Adrian EvansAbstract:The Dialrel project represented an opportunity for a dialogue between the Muslim and Jewish religious authorities, the scientific authorities, the representatives of many animal welfare organizations, and representatives of the meat supply chain to address the welfare of farm animals at time of killing and the transparency of the meat markets. An important part of the Dialrel project involved gaining a better understanding of the views and concerns of Muslim and Jewish consumers across Europe. In particular, the project sought to expand knowledge about the range of requirements and expectations that Muslim and Jewish consumers had about halal and Kosher Foods, and how these varied across countries and between different socio‐cultural groups. The research also explored consumers’ knowledge and views of religious slaughtering practices, with specific attention given to the issue of stunning.
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establishing a dialogue between science society and religion about religious slaughter the experience of the european funded project dialrel
The Halal Food Handbook, 2020Co-Authors: Mara Miele, John Lever, Adrian EvansAbstract:The Dialrel project represented an opportunity for a dialogue between the Muslim and Jewish religious authorities, the scientific authorities, the representatives of many animal welfare organizations, and representatives of the meat supply chain to address the welfare of farm animals at time of killing and the transparency of the meat markets. An important part of the Dialrel project involved gaining a better understanding of the views and concerns of Muslim and Jewish consumers across Europe. In particular, the project sought to expand knowledge about the range of requirements and expectations that Muslim and Jewish consumers had about halal and Kosher Foods, and how these varied across countries and between different socio‐cultural groups. The research also explored consumers’ knowledge and views of religious slaughtering practices, with specific attention given to the issue of stunning.
