A Very Smart Chip

bioMerieux, a French biological diagnostics company, has developed a DNA chip that will detect what meat is in a menu item or whether a vegetarian meal is actually free of animal products.

The chips isn’t aimed at consumers but at the food and animal feed industries in the United States and Europe that must follow increasingly stringent rules to account for what actually comprises their products.

The chip is designed to detect 33 species of animals in food.

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