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Applied Histological and Chemical Analysis for
Detection of Adulteration of Minced Meat and Sausage

Research Abstract
Meat and meat products were undergone to adulteration due to its high price and cause many diseases and economic losses for consumers. Fifty samples of minced meat and sausage (25 each) were collected randomly from supermarkets in Assiut city. The samples were subjected to histological and chemical analysis for detection of adulteration. Histologically, adulteration was detected in minced meat and sausage by addition of smooth muscle fibers of hollow organs, heart muscles, spongy bone, thyroid glands, adipose tissue, lung, blood vessels, intestine, proventriculus, ruminant stomach, tendons, cartilage, fascia, nerve trunk, brain, plant tissues include poppy seeds, color additives, cysts and parts of parasites. By ATPase histochemistry, fetal tissue in minced meat and sausage were suspected to add with abundant dark (slow-contracted) muscle fiber than light (fastcontracting) ones. Adulteration of minced meat and sausage with bone tissues was a statistically significant difference (p 005) and adulteration with plant cells was a statistically significant difference (p 001). The results of the histological examination showed that the total adulteration in minced meat and sausage samples were 88% and 100%, respectively. The chemical analysis revealed that the percent of adulterated samples were (8) 32% and (10) 40% when estimating protein contents in minced meat and sausage, respectively, while the adulteration was 100% in each of them by estimating the fat contents in the examined samples. The study proved that the histological technique with chemical analysis were effective complementary methods for qualitative evaluations of meat products adulteration.
Research Authors
Doaa M. Mokhtar, Doaa M. Abd-Elaziz, Hussein Youssef, and Amr Taha
Research Journal
Journal of
Advanced Microscopy Research
Research Pages
1-9
Research Publisher
American Scientific Publishers
Research Rank
1
Research Vol
13
Research Website
doi:10.1166/jamr.2018.1401
Research Year
2018