Rooting out horse-meat fraud in the wake of a recent food scandal
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
As the United Kingdom forms a new crime unit designed to fight food fraud—in response to an uproar last year over horse meat being passed off as beef—scientists from Germany are reporting a technique for detecting meat adulteration. They describe their approach, which represents a vast improvement over current methods, in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.