One percent GM Material Allowed in GM Free Certificate for Food Grains and Pulse Import

As informed in previous circulars, the Indian authorities are requiring a non GMO free certificate for consignments which are dispatched to country on or after 1st March 2021, for those crops listed in Annex 1, including wheat, maize, argentine canola, beans, polish canola, rice, safflower, soyabean to list a few.

Today, we have received a copy of a notification (from 8th Feb) further clarifying this policy which confirms that a 1% tolerance limit for adventitious presence of GMOs will be permissible in imported food crop consignments as listed in the Annex 1 (21.8.2020).

Full details are in the attached official documents.