Trial protocol of transgenic sugar beet in Belgium | Protocole d'essais de betteraves sucrieres genetiquement modifiees
2001
Mestagh, S. (Ministry of Agriculture, Bruxelles (Belgium)) | Hermann, O.
This protocol, entitled "Protocol for preparing, monitoring and harvesting fields with transgenic sugar beets and for the management of waste material coming from those fields" was set up on request of the Ministry of Small Enterprises, Traders and Agriculture in 1999 in co-operation with all the interested sectors (like IRBAB, Semzabel, Subel, CBB). This testing protocol appears to be absolutely necessary in order to avoid any unwanted supply of genetically modified sugar beets to sugar factories and hence to the food chain. This protocol specifies the precaution measures which have to be taken for the choice of the trial field, the sowing and finally the harvest. At the end of the tests, the beets shall be either destroyed on the field by crushing and ploughing under, or harvested and sent to the IRBAB laboratory for testing. The protocol also compels the provider to monitor wild beets in subsequent crops grown on the test field. Moreover each step of the testing process (from choosing the field to destroying transgenic beets after testing and including sowing and harvesting) should be recorded in the log book. This protocol is and will remain adjustable : as a matter of fact it has already been changed since 1999 and will be changed again in accordance with biotechnological progress and with the expectations of society.
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