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Battling Fish Fraud With DNA Testing

Posted by samzenpus on from the these-are-not-the-eels-you-are-looking-for dept.

itwbennett writes "High demand, high prices, and nearly identical cheaper alternatives is a recipe for fraud. Eel fraud, that is. This has led Japanese researchers to develop a method to cheaply and quickly batch-test DNA by taking small tissue samples from thousands of eels. 'If a non-local eel is found in a batch, more tests will be performed to find the guilty foreigner.'"

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  1. Re:Good for Japan by noh8rz3 · · Score: -1, Troll

    usually, most problems are from republicans. so it's a pretty safe assumption. that's why we need anonymous - to stand up for internet freedoms!