India's GEAC Clarifies Issue Re Mandatory Testing of GMF
October 24, 2008| |
India’s Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) under the Ministry of Environment and Forests has not ordered the mandatory testing of genetically modified (GM) packed food being sold in the country. This was clarified by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Shri Namo Narain Meena, in response to a query regarding this issue.
GEAC stressed however, that its approval is required prior to commercial use of GM organisms and derived products such as the environmental release of Bt cotton and the import and commercial use of GM soybean oil.
View the press release of the India Government's Press Information Bureau at http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=44085
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