US Meat retailers can now trace their wares from the ranch to the refrigerator using DNA analysis.IdentiGEN, based in Ireland with US offices in Lawrence, Kansas, says its DNA TraceBack technology can boost consumer confidence, as well as the value of the hamburger, steak, pork cuts and other meat.TraceBack can determine not only where meat came from but whether it's organic or Angus - or whatever the label says, company officials said. Chief executive Don Marvin said it's the first product to offer DNA tracing for the entire meat supply chain."If you see a DNA TraceBack label, believe it," Marvin said. "It's true. It's DNA."The technology - approved by the US Department of Agriculture in October - has been in use in Europe since 2000. British grocer Tesco and Ireland's Superquinn and Dunnes Stores use it.
US Meat retailers can now trace their wares from the ranch to the refrigerator using DNA analysis.
IdentiGEN, based in Ireland with US offices in Lawrence, Kansas, says its DNA TraceBack technology can boost consumer confidence, as well as the value of the hamburger, steak, pork cuts and other meat.
TraceBack can determine not only where meat came from but whether it's organic or Angus - or whatever the label says, company officials said. Chief executive Don Marvin said it's the first product to offer DNA tracing for the entire meat supply chain.
"If you see a DNA TraceBack label, believe it," Marvin said. "It's true. It's DNA."
The technology - approved by the US Department of Agriculture in October - has been in use in Europe since 2000. British grocer Tesco and Ireland's Superquinn and Dunnes Stores use it.
Creekstone Shouldn't Use Test for Mad Cow, U.S. Says (Update1)| Bloomberg | 09.05.2008
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC, the Kansas-based meat producer, shouldn't be allowed to test beef for mad-cow disease on its own because it could hurt the U.S. cattle industry, a government lawyer told an appeals court. ``They are creating a false assurance'' because the test Creekstone wants to use can't show that meat is completely free of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, Justice Department attorney Eric Fleisig-Greene told the court at a hearing today in Washington.
``They are creating a false assurance'' because the test Creekstone wants to use can't show that meat is completely free of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, Justice Department attorney Eric Fleisig-Greene told the court at a hearing today in Washington.
Shouldn't this be under "World" ? keep to the Fen Causeway
Yes. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
