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Annex Information to be entered in the Community Register of Genetically Modified Food and Feed

United Kingdom

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(a) Authorisation holder
  • Name

  • Syngenta Seeds BV

    • Address

  • Westeinde 62, 1600 AA Enkhuizen, The Netherlands

    • On behalf of

  • Syngenta Seeds AG, Schwarzwaldallee 215, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland

    • (b) Designation and specification of the product

  • Sweet maize, fresh or canned, that is progeny from traditionally crosses of traditionally bred maize with genetically modified maize line Bt11 that contains:

    • a synthetic version of the cryIA (b) gene derived from Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki strain HD1 under the control of a 35S promoter from Cauliflower Mosaic Virus, and IVS 6 intron from the maize alcohol dehydrogenase gene and the nopaline synthase terminator sequence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and

    • a synthetic version of the pat gene derived from Streptomyces viridochromogenes under the control of a 35S promoter from Cauliflower Mosaic Virus, an IVS intron from the maize alcholdehydrogenase gene and the nopaline synthase terminator sequence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

    • (c) Labellin

  • ‘Genetically modified sweet maize’

    • (d) Method for detection

    • Event specific real-time quantitative PCR based method for genetically modifiedBt11 sweet maize, published in European Food Research and Technology, Vol. 216/2003, pages 347-354.

    • Validated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, in collaboration with the European Network of GMO Laboratories (ENGL), published at http://engl.jrc.it/crl/oj/bt11sm.pdf.

    • Reference Material: IRMM-412R, produced by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.

    • (e) Unique identifier

  • SYN-BT Ø11-1

    • (f) Information required under Annex II to the Cartagena Protocol

  • Biosafety Clearing House, Record ID 1240

    (see: http://bch.biodiv.org/Pilot/Record.aspx?RecordID=1240)

    • (g) Conditions or restrictions on the placing on the market of the product

  • Not applicable

    • (h) Post-market monitoring requirements

  • Not appropriate