{"id":44978,"date":"2020-09-07T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/?p=44978"},"modified":"2020-09-30T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:15:39","slug":"letter-to-commissioner-kyriakides-on-open-source-detection-test-for-first-commercialized-gene-edited-plant-ready-for-integration-in-routine-eu-gmo-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/nature-food\/44978\/letter-to-commissioner-kyriakides-on-open-source-detection-test-for-first-commercialized-gene-edited-plant-ready-for-integration-in-routine-eu-gmo-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Commissioner Kyriakides on open-source detection test for first commercialized gene-edited plant ready for integration in routine EU GMO controls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greenpeace, on behalf of ARGE Gentechnik-frei (Austria), IFOAM Organics Europe and VLOG &#8211; Association Food without Genetic Engineering (Germany), wrote to the European Commission to inform about the successful development of a detection test for the first commercialised gene-edited crop \u2013 a herbicide-tolerant rapeseed produced by US company Cibus.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large  caption-style-blue-overlay caption-alignment-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/5cafa7d6-gp0uk3-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/5cafa7d6-gp0uk3-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/5cafa7d6-gp0uk3-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/5cafa7d6-gp0uk3-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/5cafa7d6-gp0uk3-510x337.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/5cafa7d6-gp0uk3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>View over field of flowering rapeseed with tree in background and clear blue sky.<div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 Bernhard Nimtsch \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>The test shows that it is possible to detect and quantify genetically modified organisms (GMOs) engineered with gene editing, and to distinguish such crops from similar crops developed with other methods.<\/p>\n\n<p>Importantly, it allows EU authorities to test imports for the presence of this particular GM crop, which is grown in the US and Canada and has no GMO authorisation in the EU. The test thereby supports EU member states in implementing the 2018 ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).<\/p>\n\n<p>Read the full letter to Commissioner Kyriakides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/6d66c5cf-letter-detection-test_07092020.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><em><strong>Update, 30 September 2020: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Download the response from Commissioner Kyriakides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/6e29fa61-registered-reply-kyriakides-detection-method.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace, on behalf of ARGE Gentechnik-frei (Austria), IFOAM Organics Europe and VLOG &#8211; Association Food without Genetic Engineering (Germany), wrote to the European Commission to inform about the successful development&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30],"p4-page-type":[19],"class_list":["post-44978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-food","tag-gmos","p4-page-type-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44978"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45097,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44978\/revisions\/45097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44978"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=44978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}