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Mexico rejects Bayer corn trait
Mexico’s health safety regulator has rejected a Bayer GM corn trait – HT3 SmartStax Pro – because it contains a glyphosate tolerance.
Bayer tells Brownfield Ag News the decision won’t impact their business and they believe it was made for non-science based reasons, contributing to industry concern about the potential erosion of “a robust evidence-based product approval process.” Bayer paused its hybrid development work on HT3 corn products last year because of delays in the EU regulatory approval process to focus on their fourth generation herbicide tolerant corn which is also under review in Mexico.
Bayer says HT4 is on track in the regulatory process and expected to launch in the middle to latter part of the decade.
Mexico’s president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, issued a decree last December to phase out glyphosate use and human consumption of genetically modified corn in Mexico within four years.
Gotta admit, you’ve got to be pretty low on the totem pole (Bayer) when Mexico shows more integrity than you. Kudos to Mexico!