Project details: vegetarian and organic foods
Details of Agency-funded projects under the Food Authenticity research programme (Q01).
Q01047: Verification of “organic meat production” by detection of permitted and not-permitted uses of veterinary medicines
This research project aims to develop methods to differentiate between therapeutic and prophylactic use of veterinary medicines in animals, this could help enforce labelling claims.
Q01049: Evaluation of quantitative real-time PCR (QRT-PCR) to determine the presence of meat species in processed vegetarian foods
This research project aims to develop methods that can detect the presence of meat in processed vegetarian foods.
Results available.
Q01050: The detection of added meat products in processed vegetarian foods
This research project aims to develop methods that can detect the presence of animal fats in processed vegetarian foods.
Results available.
Q01076: Verifying the authenticity of “organically grown” crops using stable nitrogen isotope analysis
This research project aims to develop a method that can verify whether artificial nitrogenous fertilisers (i.e. produced by chemical synthesis) have been used during the production of ‘organic’ vegetables.