a lot fresher than it really is. not so long ago this kind of fraud would have been time consuming to detect but now with the d.n.a. fingerprint detecting adulterated food can take just a few seconds. that s our goal we want to implement a system across europe and establish a large database with many authentic food samples and genetic fingerprints that will make it easier to detect food fraud on the global market. until now the food counterfeiters have always been a step ahead but thanks to the new databases that could soon change. the d.n.a. database for food stamps to uncover the fraud committed on a massive scale it s a pressing topic because food adulteration has now apparently grown common all over the world as we heard from you on facebook. lity to from chile writes that fruit
failure. none have died but very serious. four cases in arizona, four in california, two in oregon and one each in both maryland and new jersey. if you have any on this i.m. healthy brands soy nut butter, even if you have eaten it, get rid of it. it s critical to point out that we could have more cases because it takes up to three weeks for symptoms to present, which means people that aid this stuff as late as february 10 are still at risk of getting sick. the cdc points out that the dna fingerprint of this e. coli strain has never been seen before, shep. shepard: thanks, trace. the giraffe is next waiting and waiting. the giraffe wants to get it done! (vo) this is not a video game.
so your i.d. card will be buy metric and that s scary. let s take airports. they don t just ask me to go through a metal detector because i look middle eastern or something, they make everyone go through. that makes me feel at least treated equally. misery loves company. we may be in an unstable situation where only arrestees and, by the way, the dna fingerprint can also generate information about family members. family members share dna. maybe it s unstable to only do arrestees. maybe we ll have to do possibly more. okay. that s terrifying. i want to go back to johnetta. the purpose of why you were in ferguson, what you and other activists were there for, explain to me what your purpose was and do you feel it was fulfilled? i came back home because it was the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of mike brown
be seen with the help of another machine. the laser would trace the dna. that s what you re going to see here. reporter: it s a unique readout called a dna fingerprint. to solve the case that fingerprint can be added to or matched in a federal database including some 14 million different profiles. hair saliva urine, semen, all these can be used. reporter: seemingly small clues picked up at crime scenes. he says a piece of crust can yield millions of cells or even just a few. sometimes that s just enough to identify a suspect or even solve a case. alexandra field, cnn, new york. pizza crust. now that daron wint is behind bars and police believe he did not act alone, they re looking for anyone who helped him commit these crimes. what are police looking at now? i can tell you that d.c. police are continuing to hunt for more suspects who allegedly
identification lab at mount sinai hospital in new york city. a single bite mark can be enough to crack a case. swab the pizza to get as much dna from the crust. reporter: investigators lightly tested a crumb. first a machine separates out the dna. then the sample is amplified. millions of copies made to make the sample large enough to be seen with the help of another machine. it s called a dna fingerprint. to solve the case that finger sprint can be added to or matched in a federal data base including some 14 million different profiles. hair saliva urine.