“…In order to determine species adulterations in processed food products, several analytical methods based on protein or DNA assays have been developed, such as electrophoretic techniques (Sentandreu et al, 2010;Von Bargen et al, 2014;Claydon et al, 2015;Montowska & Spychaj, 2018), enzymelinked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (Perestam et al, 2017;Kok & Atalay, 2018), mass spectrometry (Sentandreu et al, 2010; Von Bargen et al, 2013Bargen et al, , 2014Montowska et al, 2014aMontowska et al, , 2014bMontowska et al, , 2015Claydon et al, 2015;Li et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2018;Nalazek-Rudnicka et al, 2019;Prandi et al, 2019), and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (Al-Kahtani et al, 2017;Amaral et al, 2017;Perestam et al, 2017;Naaum et al, 2018). Among them, both PCR and ELISA are the most commonly used methods for species detection in food.…”