According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Office of Safety Management of Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms introduced that at present, the import safety certificates of four crops of genetically modified cotton, genetically modified soybean, genetically modified corn and genetically modified rape have been approved by the National Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms Safety Committee. In addition to approving the planting of genetically modified cotton, the use of imported genetically modified soybeans, genetically modified corn and genetically modified rapeseed is limited to processing raw materials.
According to China's laws, agricultural genetically modified organisms imported as processing raw materials may not change their uses, that is, they may not be planted in China. So far, China has not approved the seeds of any genetically modified food crops to be imported to China for planting. Up to now, China has approved the import of 1 1 kinds of transgenic corn as processing raw materials; In 2009, the safety certificate of phytase transgenic corn was approved, but it did not enter commercial cultivation.
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Challenges faced by the industrialization of genetically modified corn in China
intellectual property
In terms of functional gene mining and transformation methods, there are not many intellectual property rights authorized in China. Because foreign countries often apply for patents in the form of "transformants", that is, genetically modified corn breeding materials developed in China, the gene sequences and transformation methods used may infringe foreign patents to varying degrees, and it is impossible to truly realize complete intellectual property rights.
Consumer acceptance
Due to the lag of popular science work, domestic consumers' cognition and acceptance of genetic modification is very low. Consumer acceptance is closely related to the interests of growers, which is an important factor affecting the industrialization of genetically modified corn.
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People's Daily Online-Experts said that at present, the international corn market is basically genetically modified corn.