The Sowetan says that Tripelo in Cape Town and Trimega Laboratories in the UK - headed by South African entrepreneur, Avi Lasarow - will identify communities with the highest number of FAS cases from November when testing will start.
It says that South Africa has about 4 000 cases of FAS a year, one of the highest rates in the world and the majority of these cases occur in the Northern and Western Cape provinces.
FAS is a birth defect caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
