project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
GENDUROC – Authentication of Duroc pork products using genetic markers
GENDUROC-Autentificación de productos porcinos de raza Duroc mediante el uso de marcadores genéticos.
Objectives
The overall objective of the project is to initiate a process to validate an authentication system for Duroc meat products.
• Objective 1: validate the ability of the MC1R/KIT1 polymorphic system to exclude products labelled as 100% or 50% Duroc when they are not.
• Objective 2: identify a battery of unique and specific markers to identify Duroc products from a reference population.
• Objective 3: develop and validate an efficient genotyping protocol for markers suggestive of Duroc in meat products in potential tracing systems.
Objectives
El objetivo general del proyecto es iniciar un proceso para validar un sistema de autenticación de productos cárnicos con la mención Duroc.
• Objetivo 1: validar la capacidad del sistema polimórfico MC1R/KIT1 para excluir productos etiquetados como 100% o 50% Duroc que en realidad no lo son.
• Objetivo 2: identificar una batería de marcadores exclusivos y específicos que permitan identificar productos Duroc respecto a una población de referencia.
• Objetivo 3. Poner a punto y validar un protocolo de genotipado eficiente de los marcadores sugestivos de Duroc en los productos cárnicos objeto de potencial seguimiento.
Activities
The project consists of three experiments, one per objective.
• Experiment I: validation test for MC1R/KIT1 markers from samples where the percentage of Duroc genes is known.
• Experiment II: assay to identify new markers unique or specific to the reference Duroc population.
• Experiment III: field study to develop the genotyping protocol for commercial products.
Activities
El proyecto consta de tres experimentos, uno por objetivo.
• Experimento I: prueba de validación de los marcadores MC1R/KIT1 a partir de muestras en las que su porcentaje de genes Duroc es conocido.
• Experimento II: ensayo para identificar nuevos marcadores exclusivos o específicos de la población Duroc de referencia.
• Experimento III: estudio de campo para poner a punto el protocolo de genotipado en productos comerciales.
Context
An increasing number of consumers associate Duroc pork products with quality. Up to now, however, there have been no regulations for identifying products with the name Duroc, nor a system to check the designation, as there is for Iberian pork products. Given this lack, several producers have long expressed the need to implement a self-monitoring labelling programme that is at least capable of rejecting batches of products labelled 100% Duroc or 50% Duroc that does not come from Duroc parents (both for 100% Duroc and at least one of them for 50% Duroc) registered in an official breed herd book.
DNA analysis makes it possible to identify species, breeds and individuals on the basis of the number of genetic variants unique or specific to each. This project aims to find DNA variants unique and/or specific to the Duroc breed that would allow the exclusion of product batches misidentified as 100% or 50% Duroc.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014ES06RDRP009 Spain - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Cataluña
Location
- Main geographical location
- Barcelona
- Other geographical location
- Girona
€ 106000
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
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Contacts
Project coordinator
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Associació catalana d’innovació del sector carni porcí ‘’INNOVACC’’
Project coordinator