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That may not bother a lot of people, but it means that 3 percent of the sausage and hot dog products tested contained a type of meat that's often excluded for religious reasons. Two-thirds of that human DNA was found in vegetarian hot dogs. Researchers for Clear Labs, a company that sets standards for food quality, looked at 345 samples of hot dogs and sausages from 75 brands and 10 retailers, assigning each brand a score up to 100 for the highest quality products. I would imagine if you used the same technology to discover what was on cereal boxes in the grocery store aisle, you might no longer trust what is in other food products as well, Campbell says. Andrew L. Milkowski, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, says hes suspicious about the quality of (Clear Labs) information., After reviewing the companys website and research, Milkowski claims that while the founders have a molecular genetics background, as far as I can tell they do not have any expertise or scientific training around food or agriculture. And they provide limited information on their methodology. It's not like somebody found a pinkie in a Hebrew National. (Supplied: University of Hasanuddin) Vegetarian Hot Dogs Found to Contain Traces of Meat And Human DNA Unless you follow Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Human DNA is the last thing you could expect in your food. Substitution occurs when ingredients are added that do not show up on the label. "Likewise, when they suggest that some products showed the presence of another species, like chicken in a beef product, this could also be from a single cell and even result from very practice of pulling samples from multiple packages in the same room as the company may have done.". The Clear Labs hot dog study found human DNA samples in 2 percent of the 345 hot dogs and sausages. It did not . Oh yeah, sometimes a worker loses a finger or two in the goop vats. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, about 7 billion hot dogs will be consumed in the U.S., and on the Fourth of July more than 150 million hot dogs will be consumed alone. Molecular biologists at Clear Labs then extracted the DNA from samples of these products and matched them to the genetic code of different animals. Researchers analyzed 345 hot dogs and sausages from 75 different brands sold at 10 retailers, and found human DNA in 2 percent of its hot dog samples and two-thirds of the vegetarian samples .