New test for salmon DNA tracing

2014-01-14T17:34:00

Farmed salmon can now be more efficiently tested to trace where they have come from

Scientists at the food institute Nofima have developed a new and efficient DNA test to trace escaped farmed salmon, in which they can link the DNA profile of the escaped fish to the fish farm from which it escaped.

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