National foreword

This Published Document is the UK implementation of CEN ISO/TS 21569‑10:2026. It is identical to ISO/TS 21569‑10:2026. It supersedes BS EN ISO 21569:2005+A1:2013, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee AW/275, Food analysis - Horizontal methods.

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This Published Document was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 June 2026.

This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 28 May 2026 for provisional application.

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European foreword

This document (CEN ISO/TS 21569‑10:2026) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 34 "Food products" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 275 “Food analysis - Horizontal methods” the secretariat of which is held by DIN.

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Endorsement notice

The text of ISO/TS 21569‑10:2026 has been approved by CEN as CEN ISO/TS 21569‑10:2026 without any modification.

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 34, Food products, Subcommittee SC 16, Horizontal methods for molecular biomarker analysis, in collaboration with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee CEN/TC 275, Food analysis - Horizontal methods, in accordance with the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO and CEN (Vienna Agreement).

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1 Scope

This document specifies procedures for the detection of a DNA sequence of a construct used to (genetically) enhance the growth of fish commonly found in aquaculture. The genetically modified AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) carries the construct expressing CS-GHc2 growth hormone and can be detected based on a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting either the border between the growth hormone coding sequence (CS-GHc2) of Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Chinook salmon) and the antifreeze terminator (T-AFP) of (Macro-) Zoarces americanus (ocean pout), i.e. with the construct-specific method, or the border between the Atlantic salmon genomic DNA and the antifreeze promoter (P-AFP) of ocean pout, i.e. with the event-specific method. These methods can be applied to identify the genetically modified (GM) fish or for screening purposes.

This document is applicable for the analysis of DNA extracted from foodstuffs. It can also be suitable for the analysis of DNA extracted from other products such as feedstuffs. The application of these methods requires the extraction of an adequate amount of amplifiable DNA from the relevant matrix.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Principle

5 Reagents and materials

5.1 Interlaboratory trial and control material.

5.2 PCR reagents.

6 Apparatus

6.1

7 Procedure

7.1 Preparation of test samples

7.2 DNA extraction

7.3 PCR setup

7.4 Temperature-time programme

8 Accept/reject criteria

8.1 General

8.2 Detection

9 Validation status and performance criteria

9.1 Sensitivity

9.2 Specificity

9.3 Robustness of the two methods

9.4 Interlaboratory trial for the construct-specific detection method

9.5 Interlaboratory trial for the event-specific detection method

9.6 Summary evaluation

10 Test report

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