How livestock are kept is increasingly becoming a factor in consumer decisions when buying meat. Evonik has now developed a test for chicken products that shows how the animals were kept and fed. The reliable new method, which was developed with the aid of epigenetics, enhances transparency and therefore raises consumer confidence.
Epigenetics is a branch of biology that determines how the environment an animal has been exposed to influences patterns on its genetic material. This means, for example, that it is possible to check that products declared as free-range are not actually…
