date:Feb 24, 2014
tests, the new test can check meat products for more than one species at a time, and results are available much faster typically within six hours according to Howard Sherman, chief financial officer at Safeguard Biosystems. It would also be cheaper than equivalent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA tests.
Sherman said the test would initially be developed to screen for 12 species cow, pig, chicken, horse, goat, sheep, turkey, donkey, dog, cat, rat and mouse and would offer both qualitati