P27 | NGS technologies supporting official food control activities: comparison of metabarcoding analysis on Illumina and Ion Torrent platforms and the official method (DNA microarray) applied to the authentication of ethnic products: A. Giusti1, N. Lombardo1, P. De Santis2, B.M. Varcasia2, U. Marchesi2, P. Marconi2, L. Gasperetti2, A. Armani1 | 1Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università di Pisa; 2Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri, Roma, Italy. Italian Journal of Food Safety, v. 14, n. s1, 9 Sep.2025.