As a result of the work done inside the VALID project included in the Traceability pillar of SEAFOODplus, AZTI-Tecnalia has presented an international patent application with the title Plasmidic Standards to validate species identification methodologies based on DNA analysis (ES2007/000777). The application has been filed to protect the inventions done inside the project and was presented last December 2007 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
The main objective of this patent is the protection of plasmidic standards developed for being used as internal control in DNA analysis for species identification and eventually for standardization of validation procedures in species authentication. These standards have the same characteristics and composition which ensure the standardization of measurements and procedures, and thus allowing the comparison of results obtained in different laboratories. Actually, the patent application includes a pool of ten fish plasmidic standards for seafood authentication, including some of the most important fish species for the European market such as tuna, cod and hake.
