AreaIndia

Commodity GroupOilseeds, oils and meals

CommodityCrop products

Date01/02/2021

Policy CategoryOther

Policy InstrumentSeed & GMO policies

DescriptionInformed 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.

NotesINDIA – 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.