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

Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 22:00 in Biology & Nature

Want to know what you are eating? DNA barcodes can be used to identify even very closely related species, finds a new article. Results from the study show that the labelling of game meat in South Africa is very poor with different species being substituted almost 80 percent of the time.

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