Mexico lifts outdated GM regulation
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Mexico's Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishery and Food (SAGARPA) has officially revoked regulations which imposed phytosanitary requirements on imports and shipments of GM seed and on the establishment of field trials of GM plants.

Calling the regulation "outdated", the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture pointed out that the regulation had been rendered obsolete by the March 18, 2005 publication of the Biosafety Law of Genetically Modified Organisms.

We are likely to see more regulatory news of this nature in the near future. According to the FAS:
However, the implementing regulations of the Biosafety Law foresee the additional elaboration of new Mexican official standards to be developed in accordance with the legislation. The elimination of the NOM-056-FITO-1995 is not surprising, as its elimination was first considered in the 2008 National Standardization Program, which was published in the Diario Oficial on April 14, 2008.
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