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Table 9. Costs of GMO Testing Regimes in Different Branches of the German Food and Feed Industry

Bakery Dairy Milling Confectionary Feed

Number of quantitative GMO tests per year and company 6 28 61 44 17

Average costs of one quantitative GMO test 207 € 169 € 179 € 155 € 176 €

Number of qualitative GMO tests per year and company 26 13 80

Average costs of one qualitative GMO test 157 € 163 € 145 €

Total costs of GMO testing per year and company 1,224 € 8,814 € 10,919 € 8,939 € 14,592

Costs in percent of company turnover 0.01 0.002 0.02 0.01 0.011

percent percent percent percent percent

Source: Survey of FHW, 2005.