進入二十一世紀的蛋白質檢測——不受三聚氰胺影響的創新性檢測方法

更新時間：2009-08-04 點擊次數：3024

Global resourcing and productionhave increased the demand for foodmanufacturers to ensure the

safety andintegrity of their products. Though aweakening U.S. dollar and rising costsoriginally

forced U.S. food manufactur-ers to consider less expensive importedprotein sources, they have

had toreevaluate that strategy because of thevast opportunity for adulterated ship-ments and lack

of accurate and timelytesting procedures. Customs inspec-tors and food manufacturers receive

amultitude of large shipments every dayof wheat gluten, rice protein, soy meal,and other

protein-rich ingredients.Laboratories are already backlogged,and having to wait days for test

resultscreates a bottleneck that costs suppliersand end users time and money. Moreimportantly,

test methods that do notmeasure protein directly are inaccurateand can inadvertently allow tainted

orsubstandard ingredients into the foodsupply, jeopardizing consumers!ˉ

healtas well as their trust in the manufactur-ers of the products they use.