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Over the last years, food allergies have been faced with growing interest since they are
increasingly recognized as an important problem of public health. In order to protect
consumers, proper legislation hás been issued regarding foods known to cause allergic
reactions in sensitized individufllsi Accordingly, in EU, Directive 2007/68/EC requires the
mandatory discrimination of ali allergenic foods from the rest of the ingredients present in
labels, regardless of their quantity. Soybean is among the fourteen groups of potentially
allergenic foods whose presence in processed foods must always be declared [l J.
Nowadays, soybean is frequently used by the food industry in several different processed
foodstuffs, including meat products such as sausages, hamburgers or hams. Due to its wide
use and considering that nowadays several food products can be processed in the same
facility, even with such regulations in practice, unintentional cross-contamination with
soybean and or/mislabelling can occur. Thus, for labelling compliance monitoring and to
assure consumer's protection, the development of adequate methodology for soybean
detection is ofutmost importance.
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Costa, Joana; Amaral, J.S.; Oliveira, M.B.P.P.; Mafra, Isabel (2015). A normalised real-time PCR method to quantify soybean protein material in meat products at trace amounts and as affected by thermal processing. In 5th MoniQA International Conference: book of abstracts. Porto