3. How can we ensure the traceability of GMOs?
Ensuring the traceability of GMOs and GMO-derived products meets the expectations of consumers and the needs of producers and the agri-food industry.
This will require the implementation of detection methods that enable agricultural crops to be tracked along their entire journey: from seed, through storage, transport and industrial processing, right up to the finished products found on supermarket shelves.
The need for analysis can be found at all these levels: growers and agricultural cooperatives demand certificates from seed companies, while manufacturers buy crops and check their nature, as well as any accidental contamination that may occur during storage and transport: new specifications are proposed to sellers. Finally, in response to consumer pressure, some distributors are banning GMOs from their products, while others are simply...
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Economic data
Analysis times are generally between four and eight days. Costs can vary according to the nature of the sample (extraction protocols need to be adapted) and the specificity of the test required: qualitative or quantitative detection, or even identification of the transgenic variety. The range is between 1,000 and 3,000 F.
Regulations
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EC regulations 49/2000 and 50/2000 of January 10, 2000 (applicable on April 10, 2000); the former provides details on the labeling of foodstuffs produced from GMOs.
The second concerns the labelling of additives and flavourings that are genetically modified or derived from GMOs.
EC regulation 1139/98 of May 26, 1998,...
Websites
CFS (Confédération Française des Semenciers), GNIS (Groupement National Interprofessionnel des Semences et Plants), UIPP (Union des Industries de la Protection des Plantes) : http://www.ogm.org
INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) : http://www.inra.fr/ACTUALITES/DOSSIERS/index.html
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