Thanks to a powerful new gene-editing technique, scientists have overcome a major hurdle for humans to receive life-saving organ transplants from pigs. In a paper in the U.S. journal Science this week, the researchers described using the ...
Tags: Gene Editing, Organ Transplant
Cadbury Confectionery Malaysia has recalled two batches of chocolate products which were tested positive for presence of pig DNA, porcine. Health Ministry director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah was quoted by The Star as saying ...
Tags: Chocolate Productsc, Pig DNA
US-based mass spectrometry products provider AB SCIEX has developed a new method to detect horse DNA in meat samples. AB SCIEX noted that this development is in response to recent reports that horse and pig DNA had been identified in beef ...
Pig DNA has been found in halal chicken sausages that were supplied to a primary school in Westminster, central London. This contamination was identified after Westminster Council officers collected seven samples from three schools in ...
Tags: Halal Chicken Sausages, Agriculture, Food
A nationwide testing of 364 beef product samples in the UK revealed that three products contained pork DNA above 1%, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The products that contained pig DNA are: ASDA Spaghetti and Meatballs, ASDA ...
Tags: beef product samples, pork DNA, FSA
Filler ingredient from Poland is the source of horse DNA found in beef burgers on sale in the UK and Ireland, according to Irish agriculture officials. Fresh tests on the suspected Polish ingredient have shown up to 20% horse DNA content ...
Tags: Horse DNA, Beef Burgers, Poland
The UK's Food Standards Agency has said it will consider taking legal action over the discovery of horse DNA in some beef burgers on sale in several retailers in the UK and Ireland. The UK's food safety watchdog is urgently investigating ...
Tesco has recalled some ranges of burgers in Ireland and the UK after food safety officials reported finding traces of horse meat in samples on sale in its stores, as well as in other retailers' outlets. Horse meat DNA was present in ten ...
Horsemeat has been found in some of the beef burgers that were sold in UK and Irish supermarkets, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). This finding comes after the agency conducted a study examining the authenticity ...
Tags: horsemeat, beef burgers, UK, Irish supermarkets, FSAI