G03 Project details
Details of Agency-funded projects under the Safety Assessment Of Novel And GM Food research programme (G03).
G03012: Development of unified data models and data pre-processing strategies for the generation of meaningful, standardised statistical analyses of metabolome variability in crop plants
This project addresses the need to have baseline metabolomic data for crops, to use as a reference in assessing new crop varieties (GM or non-GM). It also addresses how the quality of the raw data used for assessment purposes may affect the safety assessment.
G03019: An investigation into the use of MudPIT as a tool for the separation and quantification of proteins for GM crop safety assessments
This research project aims to assess the potential of multidimensional protein identification technology (MudPIT) as quantitative procedure to ascertain protein perturbations arising from genetic modifications.
G03021: Post-market monitoring of novel foods: Plant sterols
This research assesses consumption patterns of products containing plant sterols and consumer awareness of labelling on consumption guidelines for these products.
Results available.
G03022: Refinement of GMO screening methods by combining existing multiplex PCR approaches with lab-on-chip capillary electrophoresis endpoint detection
This research project will develop rapid and simple genetically modified organism (GMO) screening methods using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) approaches and endpoint detection using lab-on-a-chip capillary electrophoresis.
G03025: Quantitation Using Informative Zeros (QUIZ): proof of concept
This initial proof of concept study is designed to demonstrate the potential of Quantitation Using Informative Zeros (QUIZ) as a high-throughput methodology to measure Genetically Modified (GM) presence in food.
G03026: Development of a standard, validated procedure for the isolation of transgene flanking regions in GM crops and detailed analysis of transgene insertion
This project will involve the refinement and validation of a rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based method for characterisation of junction sequences in a range of genetically modified (GM) crops.
G03029: Determination of inauthentic protein glycosylation in transgenic plants
This project seeks to develop robust methodologies to characterise the glycosylation of transgenic plant proteins for application in risk assessments.