This short review looks at three methods for identifying species adulteration - ELISA, PCR-DNA, and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS).NGS uses universal primers to give amplified products, which are sequenced and then identified in a database of several thousand species.The potential for quantitative analysis without PCR exists but has yet to be fully developed.

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