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