GIDA, cilt.45, sa.2, ss.369-379, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy with chemometrics was employed to discriminate pork,horse or donkey meat substitution in beef. Wavenumber range of 1480-1360 cm−1 (94.97% of variance isexplained by the first two principal components) and fingerprint region (FR) (90.08%) clearly differentiatedbeef, pork and beef-pork mixtures in principal component analysis (PCA). For beef-donkey mixtures, 1760-1710 cm−1 (99.31%) and FR (96.03%) provided discrimination. For beef-horse meat mixtures; a groupingwas obtained for 1290-1210 cm−1 (90.41%), FR (84.83%) and whole spectrum (88.61%). In hierarchicalcluster analysis (HCA), the region between 1480-1425 cm-1 was able to separate all donkey adulteratedmixtures, 100% beef and 100% donkey meat from each other with 100% sensitivity and specificity while2980-2880 cm-1, whole spectrum and FR provided differentiation for beef-horse mixtures. 1760-1710 and1210-1190 cm−1 regions provided classification between 100% beef, 100% pork and pork-beef mixtures(except for 5% of substituted) with 100% sensitivity and specificity.