What does OPT stand for?

Ocean Pout (FAO species name code )

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Theprotein which will be used in the low-fat ice creams is a synthetic version ofone found in the blood of the ocean pout fish.

Something f ishy about low-fat ice cream; Magnum: GM technology will ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom are rejecting the proposed use of a synthetically produced "is a replica of a naturally occurring one that Unilever has copied from the ocean pout, a fish that lives in the extremely cold waters of the bottom of the Northern Atlantic Ocean.

UK scientists reject Unilever fish ingredient for ice cream

But statements the company has issued in the past say that people have eaten the protein in its natural form in ocean pout fish for decades and that the artificial version is identical.

GM ice cream 'a time bomb'

Berkeley Industrial Liaison Program Conference that he and his co-workers added proteins from the Newfoundland ocean pout to "the worst possible preserving solution" and used this mixture to keep a rat liver frozen for 24 hours without causing severa damage.

Something fishy about frozen livers

The blood protein originally comes from the eel-like ocean pout fish, which uses it to survive extreme cold at the bottom of the seas.

Just one GM fish blood Cornetto, give it to me

They spliced a section of the antifreeze gene from an ocean pout with a growth-hormone gene from a salmon and transferred it back into the salmon.

Will FDA bite on genetically modified salmon? Approval of fish for ...