§ Mr. HayesTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the products undergoing genetically modified organism field testing in the United Kingdom. [128165]
§ Mr. MorleyListed are the genetically modified organisms which are undergoing trials in the UK this year under consents issued in accordance with Part B of European Directive 2001/18/EC. All these trials are for research and development purposes, and none of the GM organisms in question have consents for placing on the market as commercial GM products.
GMO Purpose of modification Potato Altered carbohydrate metabolism Wheat Altered bread-making quality Sugar beet Herbicide tolerance Barley Altered malting and nutritional quality Pea Reporter gene linked to a drought responsive promoter Oilseed rape Herbicide tolerance Bacterium Development of vaccine for use against typhoid Bacterium Development of vaccine for use against traveller's diarrhoea Bacterium Development of vaccine for use against hepatitis