On 08/02/13 15:06, Richard Russell wrote:
On Feb 8, 1:25 pm, fred wrote:
But how would they differentiate between beef and horse meat
once it had been butchered ? DNA testing would hardly be feasible

Whyever not? If they can sequence DNA from the 500-year-old bones of
Richard III, doing it from butchered (and indeed minced) meat - prior
to cooking that is - should be easy. DNA is after all a very stable
molecule, and it's in (virtually) every cell in the body.

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

how much does it cost though?



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