- type of decision: field trial
- LMO: hybride lines of MON810, MON88017 and MON88017 x
MON810,
- legal basis: Directive 2001/18/EC, Gentechnikgesetz (German Gene
Technology Act)
- scope: test of field performance of LMO
- authorization valid within the vegetation periods of the years
2006 to 2010
- locations: 5 experimental fields located in 5 different villages
in Germany; for details see German LMO/GMO location register (
http://apps2.bvl.bund.de/stareg_web/localeSwitch.do?language=en&page=/showflaechen.do?)
- size: release site 1: 5 ha, release site 2: 20 ha, release site
3: 29 ha, release site 4: 3.1 ha, release site 5: 9.2 ha
max. 100,000 LMO/site
- related publications:
De Schrijver A, Devos Y, Van den Bulcke M, Cadot P, De Loose M,
Reheul D, Sneyers M (2007) Risk assessment of GM stacked events
obtained from crosses between GM events, Trends in Food Science
& Technology, 18, 2, 101-109
Taylor ML, Hartnell G, Nemeth M, Karunanandaa K, George B (2005)
Comparison of Broiler Performance When Fed Diets Containing Corn
Grain with Insect-Protected (Corn Rootworm and European Corn Borer)
and Herbicide-Tolerant (Glyphosate) Traits, Control Corn, or
Commercial Reference Corn-Revisited, Poultry Science, 84,
1893-1899