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Article: Biocop! (biotechnology fingerprinting in food products)
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- Food Processing
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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How new biotech fingerprinting can foil food product counterfeiting.
Anyone who hasn't been stranded on a desert island for the past few months knows that genetic fingerprinting is at the heart of the prosecution's case against alleged murderer O.J. Simpson. But this kind of high-tech evidence is making a name for itself far beyond sensational murder cases--it's also the basis for a sophisticated new way to nab food counterfeiters.
That's because Biocode, a Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology company, has developed an unusual technology to covertly fingerprint food products. Very simply, what Biocode does is intentionally add an inert chemical substance or ...