Area
India
Commodity Group
Oilseeds, oils and meals
Commodity
Crop products
Date
01/02/2021
Policy Category
Other
Policy Instrument
Seed & GMO policies
Description
Informed that GMO-free certificates for imported crop products would be required from 1 March 2021 onwards and that the permissible tolerance limit for the adventitious presence of GMOs had been set at 1 percent.
Notes
INDIA GMO policy: Regarding the recently introduced requirement to submit GMO-free certificates for imported crop products (see MPPU Sep.20), FSSAI clarified that the relevant certificates would be required from 1 March 2021 onward and that the permissible tolerance limit for the adventitious presence of GMOs had been set at 1 percent.
