date:Jun 16, 2015
The company's laboratory in Nantes, France, has come up with the new methodology that uses mitochondrial DNA targets for detection at low thresholds (0.1%).
Having a short turnaround time of five days, the chip technology is said to find 21 types of animal species, such as horsemeat in beef or ruminants in animal feed.
Eurofins said that the method has been specifically developed for meat and processed food, as well as animal feed and pet food.
With this new qualitative test, Eurofins provide