Test results for Chickens

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/brand	Meat content (declared)	Meat content (actual)	Cow DNA?	Pic DNA?
T Lelie	70% min	73%	Yes	No
T Lelie	N/A	N/A	Yes	No
den Hertog	80% min	76.6%	N/A	N/A
De Kippenhof	70% min	62.7%	N/A	N/A
De Kippenhof	65%	60.1%	No	No
Capri Chicken	80% min	76.6%	N/A	N/A
Slegtenhorst (MR Brand)	70%	64.7%	No	No
Slegtenhorst (MR Brand)	80%	71%	No	No
Lamex Sun Brand *	68%	72.5%	Yes	No
Lamex Sun Brand *	68%	66.7%	Yes	No
Jozef Hassan	N/A	53.5%	Trace	Trace
Seamark "Nice"	70%	66.2%	No	No
Seamark "Nice"	70%	68.5%	No	No
Vriesekoop "Duke"	80%	80.6%	Yes	No
Vriesekoop "Duke"	80%	60.4%	No	No
Vriesekoop "Theco"	N/A	N/A	No	No
Slegtenhorst chicken supplied by Brakes: product 3017	70%	51%	Yes	No

Source: BBC Panorama tests

* Product contains casein, a milk protein

Click here to read the responses of the processing companies