Table 4 Sample groups and mislabelling, the fraudulent substitution, removal and addition of meat ingredients in sausage samples from Sichuan, China.
Group Type | Products labelled as different meat | No. of samples | No. of mislabelled samples | No. of substituted samples | No. of samples illegally added or cross-contaminated with other species | No. of other samples with removal | Ct value for mislabelled samples | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Porcine | Chicken | Duck | Beef | |||||||
I | products labelled as chicken | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22.87–35.18 |
II | products labelled as mixture of chicken and duck | 47 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26.79 |
III | products labelled as mixture of chicken and porcine | 156 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 20.75–35.47 |
IV | products labelled as mixture of chicken, duck and porcine | 29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | undetermined |
V | products labelled as mixture of chicken, porcine and beef | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
VI | products labelled as mixture of chicken, duck and beef | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25.74 |
