China Ministry of Agriculture Revises 4 GMO Regulations
Dec 28, 2017
Giacomo Cirillo
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture announced the revision of 4 GMO regulations, concerning safety assessment, labeling, imports and administration.
On 22nd of December 2017, Ministry of Agriculture of China announced the revision of 4 different GMO regulations.
The following chart shows their main contents:
Name
| Main Contents
| Previous versions
|
Measures for Agricultural GMO Safety Evaluation(30/11/2017 Revision)
| General provisions, safety rating and evaluation, declaration and approval, testing methods, supervision and penalties.
| |
Measures for Agricultural GMO Labeling Administration (30/11/2017 Revision)
| Labeling rules, first batch of agricultural GMO catalogue implementing labeling administration.
| Measures for Agricultural GMO Labeling Administration (2002 Version)
|
Measures for Agricultural GMO Importation (30/11/2017 Revision)
| General provisions, GMOs for research and experimentation, GMOs for production, GMOS used as processing raw materials.
| |
Regulations on the administration of Agricultural GMO (7/10/2017 Revision)
| General provisions, research and experimentation, production and processing, management, import and export, supervision and inspection, penalties.
| Regulations on the administration of Agricultural GMO(2011 Version) and October 2017 revision
|
The revision of Regulations on Administration of Agricultural GMO was already notified in October and one year ago the revised draft of Food Safety Law Implementation Rules also contained specific provisions on labeling and claims. For more information, check our article Regulatory Environment for GMO Foods in China.

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