Udo Kasel's scientific contributions

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For the routine detection of allergens in foods, PCR and/or ELISA methods are employed. To assess the suitability of these methods, proficiency tests (PTs) could be used as a valuable instrument. It is a common practice to evaluate the results with respect to the experimentally obtained robust mean without considering the actual allergen content. I...

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... Several methods can be used to detect soy in food, including enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (Scharf et al. 2013) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (Stefanova et al. 2013) with isolation using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), as well as microscopic, histological, and immunohistochemical methods (Pospiech et al. 2011) and chromatographic methods (Leitner et al. 2006). Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-based methods (like PCR techniques) are methods of choice due to their specificity and sensitivity and are suitable for the detection of very small amounts of DNA in processed food products (Mafra et al. 2008;Jasbeer et al. 2010). ...