One of the main discussions about a meeting held last week in Natal (RN) focused on the need to adapt legislation among countries to allow a low level of presence of GMO events by the importing country, in case there is still no approval local.
According to information from the Ministry of Agriculture, in the transit of cereals in large quantities it is considered practically impossible to avoid the mixing of grains of new cargo with that of remaining cargoes in containers and holds of ships. Negotiations on the appropriateness of rules began in 2012.
Jorge Caetano, Deputy Secretary of Agricultural Defense of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAP) explained that “the group of countries with similar interests in the area of precision agricultural biotechnology discussed practical applications to deal with situations of Low Level Presence ), adopted to describe the unintentional, low-level presence of GMOs approved in at least one country. “He noted that there was no public health problem, but it is a problem that is treated as nonconformity.
“The low-level acceptance of these events translates, for the most part, into adjustments, discussed on a case-by-case basis, so that the tolerance becomes something other than zero,” he said.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.