Dive Summary:
- Michigan based Neogen Corp., a food safety supplier, has seen large increases in the sales of several meat testing kits in the wake of the European horse meat scandal.
- The company does not sell to consumers, but rather to large companies like grocery stores and national chains, all of whom are buying more meat tests than the company can produce.
- While Neogen has not released any actual sales figures, with the increase in paranoia in the U.S. alongside the company's international sales, it is safe to say the meat safety industry is seeing a mini-boom right now.
From the article:
"Unfortunately, a few unscrupulous people have required the entire meat industry to be concerned about the integrity of their products," Ed Bradley, Neogen's vice president of Food Safety, said in a statement to MLive.com. "Preventing the adulteration of meat products with non-desirable or cheaper animal meat is important for economic, regulatory, health and ethical reasons, especially where particular species of meat are prohibited by cultural or religious beliefs."