Rural families use innovative DNA tool to track pig farm pollution

Rural families use innovative DNA tool to track pig farm pollution

Communities living near factory farms are using a new scientific tool to track pig feces in their homes — and fight back.Hana Mensendiek reports for U.S. Right To Know.In short:Residents in Duplin County, North Carolina, worked with Johns Hopkins scientists to create Pig-2-Bac, a tool that identifies pig manure DNA in household dust.The data helps communities prove that fecal waste from nearby factory farms is contaminating their air and homes, …

On the 4th, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Nikko (Ishikawa Prefecture, President Akiko Mitani), a company that sells septic tanks, signed a license agreement for Nikko to use technology developed by OIST for wastewater treatment at pig farms. The two companies will jointly develop the technology from 2021 and continue demonstration experiments for commercialization within the prefecture.

Could DNA sensors be used to detect infectious swine viruses?

Insights from study will guide future research efforts, contributing to the development of more effective diagnostic tools for the pork industry.