Vanaf deze maand coördineert het onderzoeksinstituut ILVO samen met enkele andere instituten een onderzoeksproject dat als doelstelling heeft het ‘ontwikkelen van een moleculair-biologisch platform en een bioveiligheidsdatabank voor detectie van in Europa niet-geautoriseerde GGO’s in voeding en veevoeder’. Het onderzoeksproject loopt nog tot in 2016 en wordt gefinancierd door het federale ministerie van Volksgezondheid.
Hier een korte Engelstalige beschrijving van de doelstelling:
Development of a platform in molecular biology and a database (biosafety information) for the detection of European unauthorized genetically modified organisms (UGM) in food and feed. This project aims at 1) providing an integrated approach to detect UGMs in food and feed and 2) creating a database containing information useful for health risk assessment of UGMs.
1/Inventory and characterisation of UGMs: What types of GMOs are likely to be commercialised in the coming years and may be found on the Belgian and European market as UGMs (unauthorized GMO)? What types of food or feed can be “contaminated” with these UGMs? What are their main characteristics? Do some of the characteristics present health risks (by analogy with the GM events already characterised)? 2/Development of techniques: Which techniques and markers are necessary to be developed for detection of UGMs? How to detect the UGMs in raw and processed materials? Is the screening by means of known GM-markers a good strategy to detect UGMs? Which additional methods are necessary to be developed (“DNA walking”, high-throughput sequencing, pyrosequencing)? What is the sensitivity of the methods utilised? Is this sensitivity compatible with the problem of Low Level Presence (LLP)? 3/Feasibility analysis of semi-routine use: Is it possible to implement the developed methods in the lab for semi-routine use? How to create an approach to detect UGMs in food and feed in a rapid, efficient and inexpensive manner?
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Vanaf deze maand coördineert het onderzoeksinstituut ILVO samen met enkele andere instituten een onderzoeksproject dat als doellstelling heeft het ‘ontwikkelen van een moleculair-biologisch platform en een bioveiligheidsdatabank voor detectie van in Europa niet-geautoriseerde GGO’s in voeding en veevoeder‘. Het onderzoeksproject loopt nog tot in 2016 en wordt gefinancierd door het federale ministerie van Volksgezondheid.
1/Inventory and characterisation of UGMs: What types of GMOs are likely to be commercialised in the coming years and may be found on the Belgian and European market as UGMs (unauthorized GMO)? What types of food or feed can be “contaminated” with these UGMs? What are their main characteristics? Do some of the characteristics present health risks (by analogy with the GM events already characterised)? 2/Development of techniques: Which techniques and markers are necessary to be developed for detection of UGMs? How to detect the UGMs in raw and processed materials? Is the screening by means of known GM-markers a good strategy to detect UGMs? Which additional methods are necessary to be developed (“DNA walking”, high-throughput sequencing, pyrosequencing)? What is the sensitivity of the methods utilised? Is this sensitivity compatible with the problem of Low Level Presence (LLP)? 3/Feasibility analysis of semi-routine use: Is it possible to implement the developed methods in the lab for semi-routine use? How to create an approach to detect UGMs in food and feed in a rapid, efficient and inexpensive manner?
