Various countries have established labeling schemes for food derived from modern biotechnology. As a consequence, test methods need to be available to industry and regulators. The three test options, bioassays, protein-based and DNA-based test methods, are discussed. None of these methods is able to directly measure the percentage of foods derived from modern biotechnology by weight (weight-%), the unit in which most of the thresholds for food labeling in the different countries (if any) have been established. The conversion of the measurement units to weight-% is difficult to achieve and influenced by a number of biological factors. Metrology can aid the standardization of methods enormously by defining clearly the relationships between measurement units and other units of interest (e.g. legal thresholds). © 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Lipp, M. (2005). Testing for foods derived from modern biotechnology: Opportunities and limitations for metrology. In Traceability in Chemical Measurement (pp. 134–140). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27093-0_23
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