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 enforcing mandatory labelling.
As a result,...
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