"Genetically modified" food will be listed on the market from March 20

Introduction: from March 20, imported genetically modified agricultural products need to be labeled before they can be sold The reporter of Youth Daily obtained the confirmation from Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences that China's measures for the management of agricultural genetically modified organisms labeling was officially implemented on March 20 In the future, relevant products and processed products shall not be sold or imported in the market if they are not marked as required Reporters then observed in some supermarkets or shopping malls, none of which had labeled genetically modified agricultural products Cui Yixiong, general manager of the city supermarket on the ground floor of the great Shanghai Times Square on Huaihai Road, told reporters that he didn't know much about the policy, and that they haven't received the notice of requiring labeling so far As retailers, they all buy from Shanghai suppliers If the food is labeled when they come in, they sell it to customers Mr Xu of the Agricultural Trade Office of the U.S consulate said that he had heard about this measure for a long time, and had heard that it was not only necessary to label it, but also to have the certificate of the exporting country However, he did not know that it was implemented from today, and thought it had been implemented for a long time He said that in the process of import, as long as the importing country requests to paste out which genetically modified products are, the exporting country will certainly follow the requirements Otherwise, it will be disqualified Zhang Dabing, director of the biotechnology research center of Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said the implementation of this measure is an international trend At present, many countries in the world, including many countries in Asia, such as Japan and South Korea, are carrying out agricultural genetically modified organisms identification system At present, no genetically modified food has been approved for listing in China, and most of the genetically modified food in China is imported from the United States, Zhang said At present, Transgenic Agricultural Products in China are still in the experimental stage, only transgenic cotton has been commercialized on a large scale (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: