American corn Association calls on USDA to strengthen the management of unauthorized genetically modified farming

Introduction: American Corn Growers Association, Washington, April 19 ACGA believes that the federal agency responsible for the safety of food supply in the United States has not taken effective responsibility for preventing genetically modified products from entering the market, which ACGA is worried about Many daily goods that are not suitable for human consumption have entered the market Dan mcgurie, head of genetically modified products at ACGA, said biotech companies should be held responsible for the contamination of food, given the millions of dollars spent by the U.S government to protect U.S food, so there is no excuse to allow unauthorized genetically modified products to enter the market ACGA hopes to provide us corn growers with unbiased and objective information With this information, farmers can make scientific choices about what seeds to plant and how to sell food at a high price in the market "Farmers' choice - consumers' first plan" believes that the choice of domestic and foreign consumers is always right, although some reasons that consumers think are not right are right in the eyes of many insiders American agriculture is obliged to grow crops according to the needs and purchase wishes of consumers Larry Mitchell, chief executive of ACGA, said that Monsanto put the unapproved rapeseed (GT200) into the North American commercial consumer market, and now asked the U Indifference to the needs of consumers, and only act as a cheerleader of self righteous promotion plans of biotechnology companies Neither is acceptable The integrity of the U.S Food Safety and management system must be restored so that American consumers and foreign markets can have confidence in the U.S agricultural production system In other words, unauthorized transgenes cannot be allowed to enter food production Instead of doing the opposite, federal regulators should help American farmers compete in overseas markets Last year, Monsanto was forced to cancel plans to sell GT200 rapeseed seeds in Canada because Japan, the main exporter of Canadian rapeseed, did not accept GT200 It is reported that GT200 seeds may have been sold in the United States for three years Genetically modified rapeseed has made Canadian farmers pay a heavy price in the export to Europe The situation is like the export of genetically modified corn from the United States to Japan and the European market As the largest importer of corn from the United States, Japan has always been very concerned about the safety of genetically modified products Due to the discovery of Starlink corn from American corn ships in October of the previous year, Japan reduced the import of 53 million bushels of American corn last year As of April 4, Japan's import of American corn was 313000 tons less than that of the previous year In addition, this year, Taiwan's U.S corn import has decreased by 218000 tons in total; other Asian and Oceania countries' U.S corn import has decreased by 358000 tons On the Chinese side, although the early forecast of the industry is very optimistic, the actual import volume is zero According to the U.S Department of agriculture, as of April 4, U.S corn exports fell 862000 tons from the previous year Mcgurie concluded that the low farm purchase price of corn has made American farmers deeply aware of the negative impact of the decline in exports caused by genetically modified products on the market On April 15, South Dakota's spot corn price hovered around $1.60 a bushel The price of corn clearly conveys a voice to the market that the GM policy of the United States is a great disaster to the current agricultural and trade policy of the United States.