Naaum, Amanda M.
Hellberg, Rosalee S.
Okuma, Tara A.
Hanner, Robert H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
University of Guelph
Article History
Received: 21 March 2019
Accepted: 3 July 2019
First Online: 2 August 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: These kits were manufactured using primers and a probe designed at the University of Guelph for use by InstantLabs. The authors currently have no financial or personal investment with InstantLabs. No input from InstantLabs was made into the design, outcome, or reporting of results for this study and no financial gain was made by any of the parties involved in this study. A. Naaum and R. Hanner are involved with a separate commercial company offering authenticity testing services for food and natural health products, but which also had no oversight of this study, made no financial gain, and provided no funding. R. Hellberg and T. Okuma declare no conflict of interest.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was not applicable in this study.