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Pakistan continues to make significant progress towards implementing a full-fledged biotechnology and seed regulatory structure that is expected to facilitate the introduction of new seed....

On March 14, 2018, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency held its tenth, and final, Expert Committee panel discussion for the review of Japan’s genetically engineered (GE) food labeling requirements.

In an extraordinary measure through the Gazette of India, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare published a notification on March 12, 2018, fixing the maximum sale price for cotton seed....

The Consumer Affairs Agency’s expert committee is expected to conclude its review of Japan’s labeling requirements for genetically engineered foods at the end of March 2018.

Through Order #17, published on January 16, 2018, Ukraine established procedures required for state veterinary and safety examination of genetically engineered (GE) organisms.

The Philippines is a regional biotechnology leader and a model for science-based GE regulatory policy.

On August 19, 2015 a Mexican federal judge from the XII District Court overturned a 2013 ruling that had prevented biotechnology companies, universities, or public research institutes from planting...

Despite a protracted legal suit against the release into the environment and commercialization of GE products on the Ghanaian market, positive strides have been notched.

Legislation to strengthen Australia’s biosecurity system, simplify and streamline regulation and increase flexibility in how biosecurity risk is managed received royal assent on June 16, 2015...

Jordan’s biotechnology draft biosafety law based on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which among other issues mandates the labeling of biotech products, has yet to be approved since its drafting..

While several proposals to expand biotech labeling are still pending in the National Assembly, MFDS announced its plan in early 2015 to expand mandatory biotech labeling to include all products...

In CY2014, Taiwan was the seventh largest export market for U.S. food and agricultural products, of which genetically engineered (GE) bulk and intermediate commodity accounted for nearly 40 percent...