Method, apparatus and system for quantifying the content of genetically modified material in a sample
AssigneeCargill, Incorporated
InventorsMaurice Hurst, Randal William Giroux
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Abstract
A method including providing an initial test sample including a primary material and a relatively smaller amount of at least one adventitious material; combining the initial test sample with a standard addition of at least one adventitious material to form a final test sample, wherein the standard addition has a known amount of genetically modified adventitious material; and analyzing the final test sample to determine the % GMO of the primary material and the % GMO of the adventitious material.
Claims3
A system for monitoring the content of genetically altered material, % GMO, in an agricultural commodity, wherein the system comprises a computer having a program comprising instructions causing the programmable processor:
- a) to extract from a database or spreadsheet the number of transgenes of a primary material in the final sample and the number of non-genetically modified control genes of the primary material in the final sample;
- b) to calculate % GMO of the primary material in the final sample;
- c) to extract from a database or spreadsheet the number of transgenes of at least one adventitious material in the final sample;
- and the number of non-genetically modified control genes of at least one of the adventitious materials in the final sample;
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- d) to calculate the % GMO of the adventitious material(s) in the final sample.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions, wherein the instructions cause a programmable processor to extract from a database or spreadsheet:
- the number of transgenes of a primary material in a final sample and the number of non-genetically modified control genes of the primary material in the final sample
- calculate % GMO of the primary material in the final sample;
- extract from a database or spreadsheet the number of transgenes of at least one adventitious material in the final sample;
- and the number of non-genetically modified control genes of at least one of the adventitious materials in the final sample;
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- calculate the % GMO of the adventitious material(s) in the final sample.
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