1. Technical report on the
Food Standards Agency project G010008
“Evaluating the risks associated with using
GMOs in human foods” –
University of Newcastle
5. July 2002
The overall objective of this project was to develop methodology that is designed to evaluate whether there is a significant risk that genetically modified plants and bacteria can transfer their transgenes to other organisms in the intestinal tract of humans. To address this question the project has focussed on three issues:

6. http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/gmnewcastlereport.PDF Figure 1
Physical
map of
pGT65mcs
The map of
displays the
HSVTK and
zeomycin
resistance
genes
(TK::Sh
ble)
organised
into an operon.