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Although the use of hemoglobin-containing food additives is increasing, there is virtually no method available for monitoring their presence in food and dietary products. We have previously developed a competitive ELISA (cELISA) for the detection of bovine blood in food using a …

Detection of mammalian tissue in non-mammalian meat or feed products is important for enforcement of food-labeling laws and prevention of the spread of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). This study was conducted to develop a monoclonal antibody-based sandwich enzy…

Sentient animals, both human and nonhuman, experienced increasing demands from the Nationalist and Communist governments of China during the mid-twentieth century. A multispecies environmental history of this period demonstrates the intermingled agency of humans, bovines, and mi…