Molecular biological and immunological techniques and applications for food chemists

CONTRIBUTORS. PREFACE. PART Ia MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL METHODS: TECHNIQUES EXPLAINED. 1. Molecular Biology Laboratory Layout (Rainer Schubbert). 2. Polymerase Chain Reaction (Hermann Broll). 3. Quantitative Real-Time PCR (Hermann Broll). 4. Polymerase Chain Reaction Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis (Klaus Pietsch and Hans-Ulrich Waiblinger). 5. Single-Stranded Conformation Polymorphism Analysis (Hartmut Rehbein). 6. Sequencing (Rainer Schubbert). PART Ib MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL METHODS: APPLICATIONS. 7. Meat (Ines Laube). 8. Genetically Modified Organisms (Bert Popping). 9. Detection of Food Allergens (Carmen Diaz-Amigo and Bert Popping). 10. Offal (Neil Harris). 11. Aquatic Food (Hartmut Rehbein). PART IIa IMMUNOLOGICAL METHODS: TECHNIQUES EXPLAINED. 12. Antibody-Based Detection Methods: From Theory to Practice (Carmen Diaz-Amigo). PART IIb IMMUNOLOGICAL METHODS: APPLICATIONS. 13. Animal Specification in Speciation (Bruce W. Ritter and Laura Allred). 14. International Regulatory Environment for Food Allergen Labeling (Samuel Benrejeb Godefroy and Bert Popping). 15. Japanese Regulations and Buckwheat Allergen Detection (Hiroshi Akiyama, Shinobu Sakai, Reiko Adachi, and Reiko Teshima). 16. Egg Allergen Detection (Masahiro Shoji). 17. Soy Allergen Detection (Marcello Gatti and Cristina Ferretti). 18. Milk Allergen Detection (Sabine Baumgartner). 19. Gluten Detection (Ulrike Immer and Sigrid Haas-Lauterbach). 20. Nut Allergen Detection (Richard Fielder, Warren Higgs, and Katie Barden). 21. Fish Allergen Detection (Christiane Kruse Faeste). 22. Lupin Allergen Detection (Christiane Kruse Faeste). 23. Mustard Allergen Detection (Anne E. Ryan and Michael S. Ryan). 24. Celery Allergen Detection (Charlotta Engdahl Axelsson). INDEX.