Kits for honey GMO testing in your lab
On September 6th 2011, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) stated that pollen is to be considered as an ingredient in terms of regulation (EC) 1829/2003, in products such as honey. Hence, honey and food supplements containing pollen from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are subject to this regulation and are only marketable if an approval for the respective GMO is given. Products containing pollen from approved GMOs have to comply with corresponding labelling requirements. For non-approved GMOs, a zero tolerance applies.
Eurofins GeneScan offers you a variety of kits and reagents which enable your lab to conduct GMO analysis in honey:
| 5224700910 | DNAExtractor Honey (Qiagen/Retsch Tissue Lyser® needed) |
DNA extraction kit for 50 honey/pollen samples |
| 5224700911 | DNAExtractor Honey Clean 100 Qiagen/Retsch Tissue Lyser® needed) |
DNA extraction and purification kit for 100 honey/pollen samples |
For real-time PCR screening, we strongly recommend the following kits which cover a broad range of GMOs and give you.
| 5421220301 | GMOScreen RT (LR) 35S/NOS/FMV (IPC), for ABI 7500 Fast | 96 RT-PCR reactions, up to 44 samples per plate. Validated for use on ABI 7500 Fast. Screening of pFMV, p35S and tNOS in a single tube, and still with an internal positive control (IPC) for inhibition control. All reagents and controls are included. |
| 5421220302 | GMOScreen RT (NR) 35S/NOS/FMV (IPC), for LC 480 and MX3005P | 96 RT-PCR reactions, up to 44 samples per plate. Validated for use on Agilent (Stratagene) MX3005P and Roche LC480 (color compensation required, see below). Screening of pFMV, p35S and tNOS in a single tube, and still with an internal positive control (IPC) for inhibition control. All reagents and controls are included. |
More kits for real-time and conventional PCR for GMO screening, identification and quantification can be found in our general product list.
For analysis of GMOs with low-level-presence close to the LOD following the analytical procedure described in "Waiblinger HU, Graf N, Broll H, Grohmann L, Pietsch K: Evaluation of real-time PCR results at the limit of detection. J. Verbr. Lebensm. (2011) DOI 10.1007/s00003-011-0669-4", we recommend our special control DNAs.