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FSSAI guidelines on GMO Crops
March 10 , 2021
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- The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued an order setting the permissible limit for genetically modified organisms (GMO) in imported food crops at 1%.
- It amounts to an advocacy for zero presence of GMO in food and some other consumables.
- The task of regulating GMO levels in imported consumables was initially with the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) under the Union environment ministry.
- Now it is under the control of the FSSAI of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare since 2006.
- In GMO, genetic material (DNA) is altered or artificially introduced using genetic engineering techniques.
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