EC, JRC, IHCP, FPCGU

Authors: Bonfini, Heinze, Kay, Van den Eede

The need to monitor and verify the presence and the amount of GMOs in agricultural crops and in products derived thereof has generated a demand for analytical methods capable of detecting, identifying and quantifying either the DNA introduced or the protein expressed in transgenic plants, because these components are considered as the fundamental constituents. Several laboratories have developed therefore, methods either based on DNA detection using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, or on protein detection using enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). This document gives an overview on these techniques.

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