Posted by JD Seller on December 05, 2018 at 17:18:57 from (208.126.198.213):
In Reply to: GMO non GMO corn posted by Mutt and Jeff on December 05, 2018 at 02:50:26:
Well I am glad the Organic and anti-GMO crowd got their daily uproar going to day!!! Facts, knowledge or anything else be damned as usual.
The original question was how reliable the Non GMO certification is. Well there is not really a certification for this. You sign saying your grain is non GMO and most places that buy it have you under a contract but it is tested right when you go to unload or sell it. The fast test takes about five minutes. They grind the grain really fine and then add water to it. Then they use test strips that show if the proteins/DNA used in GMO traits are present. They also show at what level too. These fast test will show very low levels of GMO. They can also show false positives some times too. These can be caused by a few other things. They usually asked you if there is a possibility of contamination IF your corn/soybeans fail the quick test. What happens next varies depending on the buyer. The most common thing to happen is they do an additional test that does not have as many false positives but it takes longer. Some places you may have to pay for the more in-depth test. Cost is around $25-50 for that test. If your not satisfied with those results you can send a sample off to most State testing labs for an "official" test. These cost around $100-150 and take 10 days or so. They will show the exact traits and percentages present in the sample.
The places I take grain to, only take non GMO corn or soybeans on certain days. They do this so they can handle the flow of grain with the extra testing time. Truthfully the NON GMO program is pretty good about keeping the GMO grain out of it. They can test for it.
This is much better than any of the organic programs I see. They often depend on the person selling the product to follow certified practices. There are almost no tests that will show NON GMO grain being different from organic grain. Non GMO can be tested and policed. Organic is a much harder thing to actually test/prove. I suspect that there is more non GMO grain sold as organic than you would think. The price difference is just too high for it not to happen.
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