GMOval project general description

This project is directed towards the challenges of the increasing number of EU- approved and unauthorized (UGMs) GM events needed to be covered by detection techniques on the one hand, and increasing the time- and cost- efficiency of analytical approaches on the other hand.

The central aim of the project is to make available to the GMO laboratories community new validated real-time PCR screening methods for an improved GMO detection via the implementation of the matrix approach.

Methods were partially in-house validated and they were shown to provide a wider coverage degree in terms of number of authorized and unauthorized GM events. Some of the methods, called multiplex methods additionally decrease the time and cost of analysis.

The methods will be validated in collaborative trials to assess their performance and their practicability for use in GMO detection. The validations will be conducted mainly according to the guidelines defined during the GMOseek project.

The project is financially supported by the UK Food Standards Agency (contract FS244027).