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TLA Panel Allergens: priorities and challenges for food allergen detection
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MPR for gluten: CEN activities (V)
- 5 persons in a physical meeting
- 1.5 day of work for the draft
- Quantitative gluten only
- Give guidance on how to determine “performance”
- disputed issues (e.g. LoD and LoQ) will be solved at WG12 level
- Make changes possible
- Only methods studied collaboratively will be considered
- This draft will be used as a template for allergens if WG12 could agree on it
TLA Panel Allergens: priorities and challenges for food allergen detection
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RT-PCR advantages
- Very specific
- consistent/common extraction
- DNA often more stable than proteins during processing
- Multiplexing possible
- Open and standardized methods (see CEN)