Project
DETECTIVE
DETECTIVE aims to create and validate precise methods for detecting NGTs in food, along with the necessary tools and protocols. These efforts are geared towards fostering a transparent, streamlined, and inventive food system. Through DETECTIVE’s work, the goal is to facilitate the tracking and authenticity of NGT crop and animal products, enhancing market oversight, bolstering legal compliance, and empowering consumer decision-making within the EU.
The specific objectives of DETECTIVE are to:
- Create a common understanding of the traceability, authenticity and transparency needs regarding NGT products by stakeholder type through the systems mapping approach (SMA) and the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI RoadmapTM);
- Develop analytical techniques capable of detecting, identifying and quantifying known and unknown mutations, off-target mutations, and cisgenic events and validate these methods in accredited laboratories;
- Develop a data space as a cluster of databases covering a multitude of gene-edited and cisgenic organisms, gene sequences, natural and breeding-related variability (breeders’ gene pool);
- Analyse the socio-economic and regulatory implications of various technical and non-technical strategies for detection, traceability and authenticity of NGT plant and animal products;
- Empower enforcement authorities, certified laboratories, private laboratories, developers and agrifood operators through a co-created empowerment plan with train-the-trainers and capacity-building programme by applying the RRI RoadmapTM; and
- Establish a community of practice (CoP) to facilitate knowledge sharing among laboratories across.