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Why Some GMO Foods Don't Have GM DNA


rashore

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The comment came from Ken Ross, the CEO of Global ID. (He didn't make it into the final story.) Global ID is the parent company of FoodChain ID, one of the companies that traces ingredients to determine whether they contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). I was surprised when Ross explained that genetic testing is only a small part of the work that goes into certifying a product as "Non-GMO." Partly, that's because often a little investigative work can reveal that an item couldn't possibly contain a GMO, and that makes expensive and laborious genetic testing unnecessary. But it's also because sometimes a genetic test wouldn't reveal the GMO anyway. Ross says processing often degrades an ingredient to the point of making its DNA – or anything else that's genetically modified, like proteins — undetectable.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/01/21/378882909/why-some-gmo-foods-don-t-have-genetically-modified-dna

I came across this article while in a discussion about cooking oils, and thought it interesting to share.

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