Abundance of soybean Roundup Ready modification in food and feed samples from Serbian retail markets - Miljuš-Đukić, Banović, Jovanović, Majić, Milisavljević, Samardžić i Timotijević, 2010.

Abstract

Progress in biotechnology and genetic engineering enabled production of genetically modified (GM) plants, with novel characteristics due to bacterial or unrelated plants genes introduced into their genomes, like tolerance to herbicides and resistance to various diseases. Yields from GM crops yearly rise around the world, but the public concerns on using them, and subsequently derived food and feed products, forced European Commission to regulate the usage of GM organisms (GMOs) by the EU Directive 2001/18/EC. The EU regulations 1829/2003 and 1830/2003 require food industry to label all products containing more than 0.9% GM DNA. To meet the regulative demands it is necessary to detect the presence of GM event in food/feed by PCR techniques or ELISA immunological testing. In Serbia, not an EU member, the GMO law exists at the state level. Controls include a border network of phytosanitary and veterinary inspections authorized to sample imported food/feed, institutions authorized to check the food/feed quality on Serbian markets and prior to its exporting, and laboratories for testing GM DNA presence in samples. At the time analyses presented in this paper were performed, only Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybean meal was approved for putting on the market. During the 2006, 2007, and 2008 different samples of food/feed were collected among Serbian retail markets and tested to the soybean Roundup Ready presence. Analyses done using qualitative and quantitative PCR methods showed high percent of Roundup Ready samples among food/feed with similar values on yearly level, while quantitative amount ranged from 0 to 50%.

Izvor: Romanian Biotehnological Letters - University of Bucharest

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PRVI PRVI NA SKALI Ostavimo zemlju nasihe predaka nasoj deci bez GMO