China has issued new safety certificates for imported genetically modified products

Introduction: according to an official of the Ministry of agriculture in Beijing, China on Thursday, a new series of measures have been promulgated to regulate safety certificates and logo licenses, so as to ensure the normal trade of genetically modified goods "According to the new interim regulations for importing genetically modified soybeans, we started to issue safety certificates and identification licenses to foreign exporters and their Chinese trading partners from the beginning of this week These domestic and foreign enterprises almost applied to us at the same time for one-to-one correspondence," said an official from the genetically modified safety management Office of the Ministry of agriculture He said his department would strictly implement the 30 day review period stipulated in the interim code The temporary validity period of imported genetically modified soybeans, originally due to expire on December 20, has been extended to September 20, 2003 by the Ministry of agriculture in early October, which is mainly to ensure the huge demand for imported soybeans by domestic pressing enterprises Uyw According to the current import genetically modified regulations, all exporters and importers must obtain the license issued by the Chinese government before signing the contract for genetically modified goods, but the trader of an international trading company in Beijing said that they have not yet obtained any certificates from the government department, and the company had previously applied for these certificates, but he believed that the Ministry of agriculture was preparing to issue them These certificates, and these companies will be notified next week Under the new provisional regulations, the Chinese government requires foreign exporters to provide copies of certificates issued by the country of origin describing the basic information of crops as part of the application documents for safety certificates uyw   uyw