China's GM safety certificate has a short validity period

Introduction: overseas suppliers of genetically modified soybeans may need to repeatedly apply to the Ministry of agriculture of China for genetically modified safety certificates if they want to export soybeans to China in a long period This is due to the relatively short expiration time of such security certificates The above is a source close to China's agricultural genetically modified management office However, they added that the documents used to apply for such information were valid for a longer period of time Once the importer or supplier obtains the safety certificate of a genetically modified soybean, when applying for the next batch of certificates, it can simplify the procedures and provide a copy of the documents used in the previous application Although the GM regulations stipulate that the maximum time for approval of such applications is 270 days, informed people point out that in most cases, the authorities will inform the applicants of the final results within three months, that is to say, the application in March will be reviewed before June 30 and the application in September will be reviewed before December 31 As the largest single importer of soybeans from the United States, China imported 1138100 tons of soybeans in December 2001, of which 944460 tons were imported from the United States In 2001, China imported 5726400 tons of soybeans from the United States, accounting for 41.08% of 1394 tons.