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In London, they decided to conduct a DNA analysis of dog poop
<url>In the Barking and Dagenham area of east London, dog excrement will be sent for DNA analysis.
Thus, the authorities intend to fight unscrupulous owners of animals who do not clean up their feces. This is reported by BBC News (Dog mess DNA test to launch in Barking and Dagenham).
Barking and Dagenham will be the first district in the country to introduce such measures. The program will be fully operational in September 2016. Violators will be fined 80 pounds ($122).
As noted by Standard Online (DNA tests on dog poo to trace owners who don't pick it up), DNA samples are planned to be collected using swabs from the dog's mouth. Then they will be sent to the laboratory. The information received will be included in the profile of the animal listed in the register. If the owner of the dog does not clean up the feces after her, then by analyzing this biomaterial with a 99.9 percent probability, it will be possible to identify and find the right animal.
From April 2016, the delivery of DNA samples will be mandatory. Agence France-Presse adds that those dog owners who do not do this face a ban on visiting 27 parks located in Barking and Dagenham and on renting housing in houses where apartments are rented under a social rental agreement.
The District Council will have to assess how these measures can be combined with the mandatory requirement in the UK to implant chips in all dogs by April 2016.
According to the head of the district council Darren Rodwell, most dog owners perform their duties of cleaning feces for pets, but there are also those who do not. He also stressed that excrement not only pollutes the street, but also harms the health of people, especially children.
In this London area, 2.3 million pounds ($ 3.5 million) a year are now spent on cleaning the streets of excrement, as well as on the maintenance of an employee of the service for the control of domestic and stray animals. According to Standard Online, the use of DNA analysis in the United States has led to a reduction in the number of dog heaps remaining on the streets by 90 percent. (In Spain, as a result of such excrement, the amount of dog waste in a small town decreased by 70 percent in six months – VM.)
There are approximately nine million domestic dogs in the United Kingdom. At the same time, almost a quarter of families have their own dog. Every day these animals produce a thousand tons of excrement. Fines for dog feces left on the street are very large (for example, in the London borough of Croydon they reach thousands of pounds), but this measure was not effective enough.
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