The Institute for Health and Consumer Protection of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and the World Health Organization (WHO) Food Safety Programme in Europe have collaborated since 2000 in the organisation of training courses on techniques for detecting GMOs in foods, intended to teach molecular detection techniques to laboratory personnel with a good level of analytical knowledge, but with no or little expertise in this specific domain. The manual, entitled "The analysis of food samples for the presence of genetically modified organisms", edited by M. Querci, M. Jermini and G. Van Den Eede, used during these courses has now been made available on the web. See http://gmotraining.jrc.it/ or contact JRC for more information.

03/09/2003