Test strips will tell you if meat contains rat, cat or dog meat

The technology, created at Thailand's Chulalongkorn University, is designed primarily for

Muslims, because they are prohibited by lawIslam eats pork or meat of predatory animals and more. However, people of many religions are likely to be unimpressed by eating rat or dog meat, which the university claims is secretly added to beef in some countries.

Scientists have used nucleic acid lateral flow analysis (DNA) to create special nitrocellulose test strips onto which a drop of a solution containing raw materials is placed.orcooked foods. Within three hours, the lines on the test will change color, indicating the presence of traces of DNA from a pig, dog, cat, rodent or monkey.

Researchers state that in order to obtainresults, similar testing performed in the laboratory will take one to five working days. What's more, they are working to further reduce processing time.

The system is now used by business owners, halal inspection agencies and “a few consumers with scientific backgrounds,” according to Chulalongkorn University officials. 

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Chulalongkorn, aka Rama V - the fifth kingRattanakosina from 1868 to 1910. From the Chakri dynasty. Chulalongkorn is considered one of the greatest kings of Siam. The Siamese of that time knew him as Phra Phutta Chao Luang.