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Test results for Chickens
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How much meat is in your chicken?
Panorama journalists bought 17 boxes of frozen chicken fillets from various sources around the country.

Most of these chicken fillets had been imported from Holland, and were sent off to a Public Analyst Laboratory and the specialist company Indentigen to test them for their meat content and for traces of beef or pork DNA.

The results are featured below along with a link to the companies' responses:

CHICKEN
Manufacturer/brandMeat content (declared)Meat content (actual)Cow DNA?Pic DNA?
T Lelie70% min73%YesNo
T LelieN/AN/AYesNo
den Hertog80% min76.6%N/AN/A
De Kippenhof70% min62.7%N/AN/A
De Kippenhof65%60.1%NoNo
Capri Chicken80% min76.6%N/AN/A
Slegtenhorst (MR Brand)70%64.7%NoNo
Slegtenhorst (MR Brand)80%71%NoNo
Lamex Sun Brand *68%72.5%YesNo
Lamex Sun Brand *68%66.7%YesNo
Jozef HassanN/A53.5%TraceTrace
Seamark "Nice"70%66.2%NoNo
Seamark "Nice"70%68.5%NoNo
Vriesekoop "Duke"80%80.6%YesNo
Vriesekoop "Duke"80%60.4%NoNo
Vriesekoop "Theco"N/AN/ANoNo
Slegtenhorst chicken supplied by Brakes: product 301770%51%YesNo
Source: BBC Panorama tests

* Product contains casein, a milk protein

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