Environment Agency ‘This report Explores opportunities for applying advances in DNA and RNA technologies to improve understanding of ecosystem function and resilience. Society relies on healthy ecosystems for food, clean water, raw material and recreation. Information on those ecosystems, such as the functioning of organisms within them and their response to environmental pressures, is needed […]
Environment Agency: ‘A DNA based metabarcoding approach to assess diatom communities in rivers A novel, DNA based method to monitor and assess the make-up of diatom communities in rivers. This project has established a novel, DNA based method to monitor and assess the make-up of diatom communities in rivers. This new approach will mean we can […]
Environment Agency: A new DNA method that could revolutionise the way fish are monitored in lakes has been shown to detect 14 of 16 key fish species known to be present in Lake Windermere, compared to just four species found by conventional surveys. Fish are sensitive indicators of water quality and their assessment is an […]
The Environment Agency has published a paper setting out its position on accepting DNA-based methods for environmental monitoring and decision-making in the absence of a regulated framework to validate the methods. “The adoption of DNA-based methods in regulations will give a paradigm shift to ecological assessment. For this DNA-based paradigm to emerge and to enable […]
MSC ‘Seafood fraud – the selling of seafood products with a misleading label, description or promise – has become a widespread form of food fraud. In fact a recent global analysis suggested that on average 30% of seafood products are misdescribed or mislabelled. Although it is possible for seafood to become unintentionally mixed at various […]