AMMAGENOMICS Food Testing Laboratory

Found Something in Your Food? Here’s How PCR-Based DNA Testing Can Help Identify Food Contaminants Picture this: a customer at your restaurant finds what looks like a fly or a lizard tail in their curry. Panic sets in. Was it really an insect? Did it fall in during cooking, or was it already there in the raw ingredients? Could anyone get sick from eating around it? And most importantly how to find out, one way or the other, exactly what it was? Every kitchen, home or commercial, has had so...