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GMOsensor · Monitoring Genetically Modified Organisms in Food and Feed by Innovative Biosensor Approaches

7РП — „Хора“ (Действия „Мария Кюри“)

Период
2013-10-01 → 2015-09-30
Финансиране от ЕС
340 200 €
Участници
5
Схема
MC-IRSES

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Биосензорите за откриване на генетично модифицирани организми ще помогнат за разпознаването на ГМО в храни и фуражи, като например в соята или царевицата. Това е важно за точното етикетиране на продуктите и спазването на законодателството за безопасност на храните.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Monitoring Genetically Modified Organisms in Food and Feed by Innovative Biosensor Approaches

Most of transgenic plants are derived from crops of worldwide critical importance to food and feed producers: soybean, maize, oilseed, rape, rice, sugar beet, cotton. Although the advantages presented by the genetically modified organisms (GMO), such as herbicide tolerance or resistance to insects, their cultivation has raised numerous concerns in the European Union (EU) and other parts of the world about food safety, environmental and economic impact. Despite the controversies surrounding GMO, their production is increasing mainly in the American countries, reaching a global area of 160 Mha in 2011. Considering the poor acceptance by consumers of food products derived from GM crops, food labelling legislation and regulations are in force in EU and other countries such as Brazil. Analytical methods are thus required for reliable and accurate detection and quantification of GMO, not only to verify the compliance with legislation, but also to assess their prevalence in food and feed. The proposal is aimed at providing an easy, rapid and low-cost solution to the need for a suitable analytical methodology for the unambiguous identification and quantification of GMO in food and feed. For this purpose, the exchange of knowledge for the design of genosensors is proposed. Several assay formats will be evaluated; direct and sandwich assays. The detection of transgenic events will be carried out by electrochemical means and surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPR). To achieve the demanding levels of detectability, amplification strategies using enzymes and gold nanoparticles are proposed. The resulting methods will be validated by comparison with conventional DNA-based methods and they will be applied to assess and monitor the presence of GM events in food and feed commercialised in European and American countries.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Most of transgenic plants are derived from crops of worldwide critical importance to food and feed producers: soybean, maize, rapeseed and cotton. Although the advantages presented by the genetically modified organisms (GMO), such as herbicide tolerance or resistance to insects, their cultivation has raised numerous concerns in the European Union (EU) and other parts of the world about food safety, environmental and economic impact. In spite of it, their production is steadily increasing mainly in the American countries, reaching a global area of 160 million hectares in 2011. To protect consumers, food and feed labelling legislation is in force in EU and other countries such as Brazil. The verification of its compliance demands reliable and accurate GMO detection methods, but also high throughput tools able to rapidly assess the actual prevalence of transgenic material in food and feed, which is unknown.The GMOsensor proposal intends to establish an innovative and well-organised scientific network aiming at advancing on nanobiosensor devices to assess the presence of GMO in food and feed products. The achievement of high throughput sensitive analysis requires novel approaches that combine different research areas. State-of-the-art methodologies and advanced techniques will be incorporated in this research for validation of the new tools and towards the efficient monitoring of transgenic soybean and maize derived products from diverse regions. The application of biosensors in food analysis is well suited due to their easy miniaturisation, simple instrumentation and cost-effective. The use of biosensors is promising since they answer to the demands of high sensitivity, specificity, and fast analysis. In this project, novel qualitative and quantitative bioanalytical methodologies (DNA- and protein-based) are proposed to answer the demands on multitarget analysis to screen and identify authorised and unauthorised GMO.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз