TITLE:
A Smart Fluorescent Light Spectroscope to Identify the Pork Adulteration for Halal Authentication
AUTHORS:
Khondoker Ziaul Islam, Md. Abdullah Al Ahasan, Md. Sanwar Hossain, Mohammed Hadifur Rahman, Ummey Sufia Mousumi, Md. Asaduzzaman
KEYWORDS:
Pork Adulteration, Spectroscope, DNA Extraction, Fluorescence
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.12 No.1,
January
28,
2021
ABSTRACT: The complication of adulterated ingredients in processed food items is
widely observed in the food industry and remains a continuous disquiet for end
users. This problem may affect consumers’ spiritual beliefs, likewise with
their fitness and diet. Hence commercial foods should be scrutinized for the
precision of the avowed ingredients. This study is dedicated to developing a
Fluorescent light Spectroscope to identify the pork adulteration. A simple way
of DNA extraction process has been introduced to make the system more
convenient. The spectral bands linked with pork fat (PF), beef fat (BF) and
their combinations in different food formulation were skimmed, and recognized
by correlating them to those spectroscopically illustrative to clean Pork or PF
and other different items. Every material has the properties to absorb some
light of specific wavelength, and our activity is to determine thus wavelength
range at which are absorbed or make any change by the target material. The
findings have revealed that spectroscopy can be used as one of the procedures
to detect and quantify of pork in different foods and beverages formulation for
Halal verification purposes. Special laborious procedures and equipment both
are essential for the existing testing methods named RT-PCR (Reverse transcription-polymerase
chain reaction) and ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). Most of the food
processors and dealers are not skillful to conduct sufficient testing for their
products with all these sample preparation, extraction, analysis, and obtaining
results which can be overcome by our proposed setup.