One of the aims of the INTAQT project is to assess the relationship between the intrinsic quality of the products and the husbandry systems.

For this reason, a large variety of samples of chicken meat, beef meat and dairy products following an intensification gradient from extensive to intensive rearing systems for a wide variety of European countries were collected.  This activity was performed within the WP2 and for the chicken meat a total of 180 samples of breast and thigh meat from Italy, France, Swiss, Belgium and Poland were obtained.

In order to investigate about the intrinsic quality traits, all the samples collected from WP2 were analysed by the partners involved in the WP3 of the project.

The WP3 partners are characterized by a high expertise towards specific nutritional aspects. Indeed, to take advantage of this high skill at each partner the evaluation of a specific nutritional aspect was assigned. According to this organisation the UNIPG-OU represents the lab in charge for the fatty acid analyses on chicken meat samples.

UNIPG-OU is proud to announce that the fatty acids evaluation on the chicken meat samples is now completed! In fact, UNIPG-OU received and processed all the 180 chicken meat samples by using a very high specific and innovative lipidomic approach. Each sample was analysed by LC-MS/MS instrument that allowed to identify the free fatty acids and the fatty acids present in the most important lipid classes such as triglycerides and phospholipids.

Such output allows to deeply evaluate the fatty acid compositions of the chicken meat by providing interesting information to consumers as well as to the different actors of the supply chain.

Moreover, the combination of these results with those obtained by the other labs will contribute to characterized as precise as possible the intrinsic quality of each product.