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The Food Standards Agency

Inter-laboratory collaborative trial of real-time PCR method for the relative quantification of horse and pork DNA in raw and processed beef

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01/ The notice

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Published
1 Feb 2022
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02/ The brief

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Applicants were invited to submit tenders to plan a full-scale inter-laboratory collaborative trial on the methods that were developed under Defra project FA0171 on the quantitation of horse DNA in processed beef and pork DNA in raw and processed beef. The draft SOPs for the methods can be found on Bravo.

The proposed collaborative studies should follow the principals of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (IUPAC protocol on design, conduct and interpretation of collaborative studies)3 and the European Network of GMO laboratories (ENGL) (Definition of minimum performance requirements for analytical methods of GMO testing).

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  • 73000000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.

  1. 1 Feb 2022
    Award notice

    Award notice published 1 February 2022.

    Release 002910-2022

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06/ Questions

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