Dear Colleagues,

It has been brought to my attention that a recently filed patent
application in the US aims to patent the use of nature's isotopes for
food and other authentication purposes.

Please have a look at the following patent application in the public
domain at http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090042304
or
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u
=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=%22
METHOD+ANALYZING+FOODS%22.TTL.&OS=TTL/%22METHOD+FOR+ANALYZING+FOODS%22&R
S=TTL/%22METHOD+FOR+ANALYZING+FOODS%22

Of course trying to patent prior art is outrageous and patenting nature
presumptuous. 

Any comments?

Best regards, Jurian Hoogewerff

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Dr. Jurian Hoogewerff
 
Senior Lecturer Forensic Geochemistry
Centre for Forensic Provenancing
School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
 

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