Meat is the main component of food consumption. In order to make profit, companies may adulterate cheap meat to expensive meat during processing and marketing. To protect the consumer's right and regulate meat market, supervision agencies should systematically analyze meat identification technology and establish an appropriate methods. Currently, the methods of meat identification include histological methods, chemical methods, immunological methods and DNA sequence-based detection methods. This paper focuses on the application of ELISA and DNA detection methods in meat identification. Besides, the defects of GB standards were also analyzed.