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We would like to thank the members of the Swiss Food Manual subcommission 29a (Albert Eugster, Peter Brodmann, Ulrich Vögeli, Jürg Ruf, Urs Pauli, Wolfram Hemmer, Jean-Yves Deru, Rolf Meyer, Jürg Rentsch, and Anita Pfefferkorn) for discussions, suggestions, and their participation in the ring test together with Andreas Wurz (Gene-Scan GmbH, Freiburg, Germany) and Frederik Janssen (Food Inspection Service, Zutphen, The Netherlands).
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Hübner, P., Studer, E. & Lüthy, J. Quantitation of genetically modified organisms in food. Nat Biotechnol 17, 1137–1138 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/15129
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