GMOchips: New technology in food sciences facing the multiplicity of new released GMO

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 00.0449

Key words (English)

GMO; detection; chip technology; Measurement Methods; Reference Materials

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: G6RD-2000-00419

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.3.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Fachstelle BATS
Biosicherheitsforschung u. Abschätzung von Technikfolgen
Schwerpunktprogramm Biotechnologie

Partners and International Organizations (English)

Coordinator: Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (B)

Abstract (English)

Reliable detection methods are essential for the labelling of GMO concerned food and for the control at the EU borders. This programme will collaborate with two previous EU programs in order to develop a new biochips technology for already assayed GMO. It will also develop assays for new released GMO not (yet) approved by the EU. The miniaturisation and the multiparametric detection of the DNA microarray can be used in a 'matrix approach' for both quantitative detection and typing of GMO. Amplifications by consensus PCR of parts of the plant and GMO used sequences can then be identified on the microarray. A final ring-test will assess the reliability of the micro-array testing and compare both technologies in terms of quantification and identification of GMO. Most of the laboratories are common to previous EU programmes making the comparison possible. The results will be proposed for CEN standardisation.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 00.0449