Acknowledging the corn? 🌽

🇲🇽 Mexico has announced it’ll no longer ban all genetically modified (GMO) corn imports by 2024: instead, it will continue to allow it in animal feed and manufactured products for the foreseeable future and has postponed that date. 

     • Nothing’s out the table yet (except corn, maybe)! The Mexican government plans to conduct research to assess the health impacts of GMO corn. Nonetheless, officials have yet to say whether they plan to immediately ban imports for human consumption.

     • On the other hand, the Biden-Harris administration had asked Mexico to present a scientific explanation for the ban (to acknowledge the corn?), and the National Corn Growers Association has been demanding an aggressive stand out of concern for the future. For more details, read this.