1. GMP: description and production methods
1.1 General presentation
We'll confine ourselves to the GMPs we've just mentioned, i.e. those that are on the market somewhere in the world, or at least in the process of being authorized for marketing or field testing. Of course, sorcerers' apprentices can come up with undeniably dangerous GMPs, which would pose specific problems that are not the subject of this article.
A GMP is a plant in which one or more traits have been acquired not by gene transfer between two parental plants through crossing, but by genetic engineering techniques. These genes may come from the same plant, another plant, a bacterium or any other organism, including animals. In many cases, this is rightly presented as crossing species barriers. The...
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In 2007, GMPs were grown on more than 114 million hectares worldwide (figure ); 101 Mha on the American continent, around 6 Mha in India and 4 Mha in China, and very few in Europe (less than 300,000 ha, including 100,000 ha in Spain and Romania, and around 22,000 ha in France). In 2007, therefore, these GMPs were field crops grown in major agricultural countries.
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Bibliography
Websites
FAO
http://www.fao.org/ag/agn/agns/biotechnology_en.asp
WHO
http://www.who.int/foodsafety/biotech/en/
EFSA
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