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Bench-top Meat Detector Produced

11 November 2013, 10:24 AM
  • Following 2013's horse meat scandal, UK engineers have created a machine able to distinguish between beef and horse meat in products
Bench-top Meat Detector Produced

The device has been created by the Institute of Food Research and Oxford Instruments in order to avoid meat identification issues in future, and as well as beef and horse meat can identify the meat of pigs, sheep and geese by analysing the fatty acids present in food samples.

The invention means that supermarkets no longer have to send samples off to be DNA tested, which avoids the considerable time and money expenses currently incurred. The method will take 15 to 20 minutes, at a cost of less than £20 per sample.

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