Quantitative PCR Test for MON863 Corn

• New EU regulations require food and feed products to be labeled if the adventitious and technically unavoidable presence of GMO exceeds 0.9%; another group of GMOs are allowed up to 0.5%
• Trait specific GMO analytical methods are necessary to ensure compliance to the various thresholds in regulation
• Identification and quantification of MON863 corn, from Monsanto, traded as YieldGard Plus or MaxGard is necessary to ensure marketability of food and feed product that may contain this GMO
• Eurofins and GeneScan offer more than 50 different qualitative and quantitative tests for GMOs