July 28, 2004
The website of the European
Commission's Community
Reference Laboratory for GM Food and Feed has been updated
at
http://gmo-crl.jrc.it/statusofdoss.htm:
Final report of the validation
of Bt11 sweet maize
Unique identifier: SYN-BT011-1
Applicant: Syngenta Seeds
Status/progress: completed with a favorable evaluation for the
method
Completion date: October 2003
Report: Validation report in PDF format:
http://gmo-crl.jrc.it/summaries/CRL%20Bt11%20Sweet%20maize%20validation%20report.pdf
Validated method (PDF file):
http://gmo-crl.jrc.it/detectionmethods/Bt11-protocol.pdf
Summary reports of NK603 maize
Unique identifier: MON-00603-6 (proposed)
Applicant: Monsanto Company
Completion date: completed in July 2004
Report: Summary in PDF format at
http://gmo-crl.jrc.it/summaries/NK603%20maize%20summary.pdf
(The method report will be made available after the
authorization process has been completed.)
Summary reports of GA21 maize
Unique identifier:
MON-00021-9
Applicant: Monsanto Company
Completion date: completed in July 2004
Report: Summary in PDF format at
http://gmo-crl.jrc.it/summaries/GA21%20maize%20summary.pdf
(The method report will be made available after the
authorization process has been completed.)
A new event, LLRICE62 has been
added to the validation list
Unique identifier: ACS-0S002-5
Applicant: BAyer Cropscience
Status/progress: step 2 ongoing (scientific evaluation fo the
method and sample documentation)
The Community Reference
Laboratory (CRL) that has been established in the context of the
European Union GM Food and Feed Legislation. The core task of
the CRL is the technical evaluation and validation of
quantitative detection methods for GM Food and Feed as part of a
Commission authorisation procedure. The Joint Research Centre
(JRC) of the European Commission and - more precisely - the
Biotechnology and GMOs Unit, has been given the mandate for the
operation of the CRL. It does so in collaboration with a
European Network of more than seventy National Control
Laboratories, assembled in the European Network of GMO
Laboratories (ENGL). |