Journal of Food Processing & Technology

DNA barcode assisted labeling of marine and inland fishery resources, an essential step towards the blue revolution and seafood safety in India

7^th Indo-Global Summit and Expo on Food & Beverages

October 08-10, 2015 New Delhi, India

Vivek Rohidas Vartak

Dr. B.S. Konkan Agricultural University, India

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Food Process Technol

Abstract:

The aquatic resources are one of the central amongst the food resources as they fetch foreign revenue through export. These groups comprise numerous species but only few of them are pricy with huge demand due to quality and tasty meat. The difference in prices of these foods is found to be the prime reason for the mislabeling as low cost could be substituted with the high cost food. Such activity increases the chance of price fraud as inferior meat may serve on par with high priced meat. Apart from this, mislabeling leads to threats to ecology, biodiversity and fisheries resource management of every nation. However, the manifestation of mislabeling is not under control due to the multipart seafood sources on world-wide level. Even if the seafood inspection is ruled out, the assessment of the processed forms is difficult owing to loss of the morphological characters and appearance. In order to overcome such problems a concrete method of inspection and regulations are required in India which could discern the seafood at live as well as its processed forms. The pragmatic method to identify and label the inland as well as marine fishery resources is developed by us utilizing the DNA barcode tool. However, strict regulations are required to be implemented to make this procedure as a mandatory practice in India. This would be one of the prime steps to protect consumer benefit, biodiversity and aquatic resources instigating blue revolution in India.

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Email: vivekvartak_arombrs@yahoo.com