Hot dog sausages contain human DNA, study says, and many vegetarian ones contain meat

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Hot dog sausages contain human DNA, study says, and many vegetarian ones contain meat



Hot dogs have been found to include human DNA and 10 per cent of vegetarian sausages actually include meat, according to a new study.

A company has performed a molecular analysis on popular hot dog sausages, and found that 14 per cent of them were “problematic in some way”. Such sausages included the wrong meats, unhygienic additions — and even traces of human DNA.

Vegetarian sausages were found in many cases to include meat. And that didn’t just include contamination by meat from animals — the study also found that many vegetarian sausages included human DNA.

In all of the 345 hot dogs studied, 2 per cent of them had human DNA inside, according to the study. Two in three of those were vegetarian sausages.

The findings were reported by a new startup called Clear Food. The company didn't explain how it had conducted the study or detail its process, but said that it had done so using "genomic analysis technology".

The company didn’t say exactly where the human DNA came from — and its presence doesn’t necessarily mean that eating the sausages meant eating human flesh. It’s more likely that the traces were introduced through unhygienic processes while they were being made, meaning that spit, dandruff or traces of skin could have come off and gone into the food.

And in meat sausages, company appear to be substituting different ingredients for those advertised on labels.

Pork was found in a number of sausages that weren’t supposed to contain it, such as chicken and turkey sausages. That could be particularly difficult for some religious customers who refrain from eating products made out of pigs.

“Pork substitution was an issue in products across the price spectrum being sold at a wide variety of retailers,” according to the company that undertook the report. It said that generally there was no correlation between the price of a sausage and the likelihood of it containing meat despite claiming to be vegetarian, or the presence of human DNA.

source: Hot dog sausages contain human DNA, study says, and many vegetarian ones contain meat | Science | News | The Independent

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The Pigs must be raised by Robert Pickton.
 

AnnaG

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"probably a speck of a cook’s skin that self-exfoliated"

You're source AnnaG :lol:

But to be in 14% of all sampled Hot Dogs? That's a lot of skin.
:roll: Skin cells, hair, someone sneezes, another employee drooled, etc etc etc.
I bet they'd find insect parts and other foreign materials, as well.
 

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Surely to God you people can't be talking about Costco hot dogs. Yah, right the Costco hot dogs I eat once a month are fine. They are, aren't they?
 

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Hot dog sausages contain human DNA, study says, and many vegetarian ones contain meat



Hot dogs have been found to include human DNA and 10 per cent of vegetarian sausages actually include meat, according to a new study.

No reason for panic.......................could be something as simple as a finger getting into the sausage machine!