6-Regulation: Mexican PAN party approves new GMO law

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TITLE:  Mexican PAN party approves transgenics
SOURCE: United Press International / InterestAlert
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DATE:   9 Dec 2004

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Mexican PAN party approves transgenics

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Lawmakers of Mexico's ruling National Action
Party have given their approval of a law regulating genetically modified
organisms, El Universal reported Thursday.

The Biosecurity and Genetically Modified Organisms Law regulates the
production, commercialization, and research of all transgenics products
in Mexico.

The law still face passage by Mexico's full House of Representatives,
where the Democratic Revolutionary Party and the majority Institutional
Revolutionary Party or PRI, have vowed to block it.

The PAN legislators said the law would protect centers of origin of
species native to Mexico from transgenics in the event of genetic
contamination that puts them at risk.

Critics of transgenics have warned that if national territory is used for
research and production, it will be difficult to erect barriers to impede
the transgenics' contact with human populations and the environment.

GMOs have long been a controversial issue in Mexico, especially after
native corn species were discovered to have been mysteriously
contaminated by transgenic seeds from the United States.

In early November, a panel of scientists concluded that genetically
engineered corn in Mexico should be limited or stopped, in order to
preserve the species' genetic diversity.




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