DNA Tests at Coffee Houses
Next time you’re in Camden, New Jersey, drop by City Coffee in the 500 block of Market Street if you’re in need of a DNA test. For around $550, coffee house employees will swab your mouth and send the samples on to a Texas lab. Results are available within one week.
In one case, he [owner Ronald Ford] said, he hired a social worker to break the bad news to a man who, it turned out, was not the father of the 3-year-old who calls him “Daddy.”
Given the quality of coffee I get sometimes from cafes and coffee houses, I wouldn’t too quick to get my DNA testing done at these places.
Newsday.com, March 5, 2006
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DNA testing is heavily advertised on radio ads. “Next time you see your child, swab him/her if you have any doubts.” You send the swabs by mail, and get the results back in a week? Sounds like a scam. Where is the Federal Gov for stuff like this and Leptroprin ($153 a bottle for a vitamin formula?).
Spider63: You’re kidding?! I’m in London and don’t listen to the radio much but I haven’t heard that kind of ad yet. Checking for paternity is actually a pretty straightforward process. But if I were the customer, I’d be sure to get a confirmatory test if the results were other than what I’d expected.