The Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology has developed a method which allows for the reliable detection of the falsification of wool products.
The procedure has been developed by the institute to differentiate animal species.
'We extract the DNA from the wool, explained Dr Bjoern Seidel, project manager at the Institute.
'We have to multiply the DNA which we extract from the wool millionfold before we can analyse its origin,for example, goat, sheep or even camel,' he added.
