| Monitoring the presence of genetically modified food on the market of the Republic of Croatia. | |
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PMID: 22397265 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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From the beginning of the human race people have been applying different methods to change the genetic material of either plants or animals in order to increase their yield as well as to improve the quality and quantity of food. Genetically modified organism (GMO) means an organism in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination. Analysing the presence of GMO in food is done by detecting the presence of either specific DNA sequences inserted in the genome of transgenic organism, or detecting proteins as a result of the expression of the inserted DNA. In this work food testing for the presence of genetically modified organisms was conducted during the period from 2004 to 2007 in the GMO laboratory of the Croatian National Institute of Public Health. According to the regulations, among the samples in which the presence of GMO was detected, all those which had more than 0.9% of GMO content were either rejected from the border or removed from the market, because such GM food has to be appropriately labelled. Among the food samples which were analysed in 2004: 127 (2.37%) of a total of 1226 samples contained more than 0.9% of GMOs; in 2005 there was only one in 512 (0.20%) samples in total; in 2006 there were 4 out of 404 samples (0.99%), and in 2007: 7 of a total of 655 samples (1.07%) had GMO content above the allowed threshold of 0.9%. |
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Albert Cattunar; Krunoslav Capak; Jelena Zafran Novak; Vladimir Mićović; Jagoda Doko-Jelinić; Dulija Malatestinić |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Collegium antropologicum Volume: 35 ISSN: 0350-6134 ISO Abbreviation: Coll Antropol Publication Date: 2011 Dec |
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Created Date: 2012-03-08 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8003354 Medline TA: Coll Antropol Country: Croatia |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1231-6 Citation Subset: IM |
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University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Health, Rijeka, Croatia. albert2@hi.htnet.hrr |
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