Problems with identifying meat? The answer is to check the barcode

Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 19:00 in Biology & Nature

Want to know what you are eating? DNA barcodes can be used to identify even very closely related species, finds an article published in BioMed Central's open access journal Investigative Genetics. Results from the study show that the labelling of game meat in South Africa is very poor with different species being substituted almost 80% of the time.

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