date:Apr 08, 2013
ped the method in collaboration with bioinformaticist Professor Bertil Schmidt and colleagues at the German and Swiss food control authorities.
And, using a simple digital method of counting short snippets of DNA, we will also probably be able to determine the relative incidence of individual species-related material more precisely than was previously the case.
In pilot studies, the researchers were able to use the new DNA method to detect the presence of a 1% content of horse meat in products