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  • Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) – The Future For DNA Analysis


    Public Analysts and senior staff from Public Analyst Scientific Services welcomed Dr Ilka Haase of our partner laboratory Eurofins Genomics based in Ebersberg, Germany at the Wolverhampton Laboratory for a training day for NGS.
    Dr Haase gave a brief resume of NGS methods and a more detailed presentation of the problems and pitfalls of interpretation of the results generated.
    NGS is already becoming prominent in DNA analysis and is likely to supersede current methods based on RT-PCR and Sanger sequencing, giving our enforcement scientists a powerful and productive tool to aid in the authentication of both meat and plant based food ingredients in compound foods and in the detection of fraudulent practices. As a method, it is capable of identifying and giving an indication of quantity of DNA from multiple ingredients in complex mixtures, a significant advance on the older methods.