China announces new regulations on the import of genetically modified products

Introduction: according to the report published on Saturday, according to the report published on Saturday, China's relevant quarantine authorities announced new regulations on genetically modified agricultural products, but the market is not expected to have a great impact on soybean import According to the Xinhua news agency, the regulations on the reexamination of import animal and plant quarantine, signed and passed by the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) on July 1, will come into force on September 1, 2002 This latest regulation is another set of genetically modified regulations re formulated according to the regulations on the safety management of agricultural genetically modified organisms announced by the Ministry of agriculture of China in January this year and the new regulations on the management of genetically modified products It is the latest regulation of a series of genetically modified regulations published in China since June last year This regulation stipulates that AQ SIQ will be responsible for issuing import quarantine license for all imported genetically modified products The IZC regulation also stipulates that the application for import license of genetically modified products will be submitted to the local quarantine department responsible for the inspection of these goods, and only the application passing the preliminary examination can be submitted to the higher quarantine department for final approval After receiving the application submitted by the local department and subject to primary examination, AQSIQ needs to make the final reply within 30 working days, and issue the import license or give the notice IZC traders said Saturday that the rule was expected because two other agencies involved in managing GM imports, the Ministry of agriculture and the Ministry of health, have announced their own rules Although the announcement of the regulation helps to clarify the procedure of applying for import license from the Chinese quarantine organ, there are still some unclear places The regulation does not specify the time required for the local quarantine organ to conduct the preliminary examination The market is looking forward to the detailed rules for the implementation of the regulations.