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Technical report on the Food Standards Agency
project G010008 Evaluating the risks
associated with using GMOs in human foods
University of Newcastle 5. July
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The overall objective of this project was to
develop methodology that is designed to evaluate
whether there is a significant risk that
genetically modified plants and bacteria can
transfer their transgenes to other organisms in
the intestinal tract of humans. To address this
question the project has focussed on three
issues
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Figure 1 Physical map of pGT65mcs The map of
pGT65mcs displays the HSVTK and zeomycin
resistance genes (TKSh ble) organised into
an operon.
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