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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Legal notice seeks genetically modified food draft withdrawal -GS Mudur

Legal notice seeks genetically modified food draft withdrawal -GS Mudur

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published Published on Feb 6, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 6, 2022

-The Telegraph

The FSSAI had set a Feb 5 deadline for public feedback on its proposed regulations that outline procedures through which GM foods can be imported in the country

A citizen petitioner has through a legal notice asked India’s food authority to withdraw its draft rules on genetically modified foods, saying its proposals would breach environmental regulations and dilute food labelling requirements directed by the Supreme Court.

The notice, sent on Friday to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India by Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan on behalf of petitioner Aruna Rodrigues, asks the FSSAI to “reconsider” the draft rules, arguing they are “not in public interest”.

The FSSAI had set a February 5 deadline for public feedback on its proposed regulations that outline the procedures through which GM foods can be imported and released in the country. Some farmer groups too had last month opposed the draft regulations.

Many countries are commercially cultivating edible GM crops, including maize, soya and papaya, but India has so far allowed the cultivation of only GM cotton amid longstanding opposition to such crops and food by some farmer and consumer groups.

Indian scientists have helped develop and evaluate through field trials GM brinjal and mustard, but both crops remain unapproved for commercial cultivation. Sections of farmer groups, however, are wary about GM foods entering India through imports.

The legal notice has flagged a clause in the draft regulations under which GM foods that do not contain living modified organisms can be directly examined by the FSSAI for food safety, asserting that this runs counter to Union environment ministry rules framed in 1989.

The 1989 rules require that the import of any genetically modified organisms (GMO), “whether living or not, whether processed or not”, is assessed by the environment ministry’s Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), the notice says.

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The Telegraph, 6 February, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/legal-notice-seeks-genetically-modified-food-draft-withdrawal/cid/1850761


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