Biotech Updates

China Publishes Consensus Document on GMOs

December 9, 2011

China officially issued The Consensus Document on GMOs (Volume 1) compiled and translated by the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Agriculture. Authored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the book has three parts: (1) Consensus document on biology of rice, wheat, corn, cotton, soybean, and canola, (2) Consensus document of such crops on compositional considerations for new GM varieties of key food/feed nutrients and anti-nutrients, and (3) Consensus document on Bt-crop safety information.

See article in Chinese by visiting blogsite of GMOs Management Office at http://aqpjcn.blog.163.com/ .