Regulated Food and Feed Products for Great Britain

GMB151

GM event: GMB151

Unique identifier code: BCS-GM151-6

Original application: RP-1123

Authorisation holder: Authorisation holder  (1) The name and address of the authorisation holder is BASF Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC, 100 Park Avenue, Florham Park, New Jersey, 07932, USA. (2) The authorisation holder is represented in Great Britain by BASF PLC, 2 Stockport Exchange, Railway Road, Stockport, Cheshire, UK, SK1 3GG

Characteristics: GMB151 soybean is modified by the addition of the cry14Ab-1.b and hppdPf-4Pa gene cassettes. The Cry14Ab-1 protein confers resistance to soybean cyst nematode (SCN). The HPPD-4 protein is a modified form of the 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase gene from P. fluorescens, which confers tolerance to HPPD (4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase) inhibitor herbicides such as isoxaflutole.

Detection method: The method is set out in the document entitled “Event-specific Method for the Quantification of soybean GMB151 by Real-time PCR”, reference “EURL-VL-01/18VP” and published 23 July 2020.  Validated by the EU Reference Laboratory established under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, published at https://gmo-crl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/method-validations

Commodity: Soybean

Authorised use: (a) foods and food ingredients containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified soybean BCS-GM151-6; (b) feed containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified soybean BCS-GM151-6; (c) products containing, or consisting of, genetically modified soybean BCS-GM151-6 for uses other than those provided for in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), with the exception of cultivation.

Status: Authorised

Applies in: England, Scotland, Wales

Status change date: 13 October 2025 The date the status was last changed.

Labelling: (1) For the purposes of the labelling requirements in Articles 13(1) and 25(2) of Regulation 1829/2003, and in Article 4(6) of Regulation 1830/2003, the ‘name of the organism’ is ‘soybean’. 

(2) The words ‘not for cultivation’ must appear on the label of, and in documents accompanying, the products containing or consisting of genetically modified soybean BCS-GM151-6, with the exception of food and food ingredients.

Post-market monitoring: Not required

Environmental monitoring plan: Available on request

Information needed under Cartagena Protocol (Annex II): https://bch.cbd.int/en/database/DEC/BCH-DEC-GB-280770-1

Last updated: 13 October 2025 The date the item authorisation was last modified.