Mexico Says U.S. GMO Corn Will be Imported if it Passes a Test

Without specifying a date, Mexican Secretary of Economy Raquel Buenrostro anticipated a new decree will be published in a few days.
Without specifying a date, Mexican Secretary of Economy Raquel Buenrostro anticipated a new decree will be published in a few days.
(Farm Journal)

Mexico will soon publish a new decree regarding the import of GMO corn that Mexican Secretary of Economy Raquel Buenrostro said will address U.S. concerns on the Mexican action, according to a Reuters report.


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The new decree will indicate that if U.S. GMO corn passes the sanitary filters of the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), it will have no problem entering Mexico, said Buenrostro.

Without specifying a date, Buenrostro anticipated a new decree will be published in a few days, which she says will address U.S. concerns and should eliminate the possibility of the U.S. starting a dispute settlement process against Mexico under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).


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“In the new drafting proposal, an article was included, ‘claritito,’ which said that transgenic corn would be evaluated by Cofepris on a scientific basis, which is our regulatory health authority, and that it could work together with the regulatory health authorities of other countries. Then there would be no problem because the science is already there,” Buenrostro said. "And if they prove that there is no harm to health, then it will be approved. If Cofepris says that it does not generate any harm, the product is approved."

 

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