Patent granted to ICAR-CIRC, Meerut for detection of adulteration of buffalo milk or meat with cow milk or meat

ICAR- Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut received a patent for an invention entitled “Development of an in-house built lamp assay for rapid detection of cow components adulterated in buffalo milk/meat” under the Patents Act, 1970 (Patent No: 474562). The invention is a methodology developed for detecting the adulteration of buffalo milk or meat with the cow components.

The ban on cow slaughter in many parts of the country may lead to the illegal adulteration of buffalo meat with cow meat. For the rapid detection of cow components in buffalo milk or meat, the invention applies the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method. The proposed methodology can detect a minimum level of 5% adulteration. The method is rapid, economical, user friendly, and specific in detecting adulteration. Due to its simplicity and specificity, the developed LAMP test can easily be adapted in any laboratory for rapid species identification in animal products.

Inventors: Rajib Deb, Umesh Singh, Sushil Kumar, T V Raja, Rafeeque R. Alyethodi, Rani Alex, Gyanendra Singh and B Prakash

(Source: ICAR- Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut)