Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Oxford Nanopore) and WeNou have announced a collaboration that will bring to market the first industry-accepted, simple, rapid test to accurately detect food fraud. Using nanopore sequencing technology, the test will determine the presence of adulterants and the composition of food samples.
Using an “untargeted” approach, the companies aim to produce a test that is more cost effective and faster than current methods, using DNA sequencing-based analysis for the identification of multiple species in a single sample.