Mexico City. Referring to the dispute with the United States over Mexico’s ban on human consumption of genetically modified corn, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology continues to investigate the harm that ingesting this corn causes to humans. type of corn. However, he anticipated that if there is a resolution adverse to Mexico in the instance being decided, there are other panels to go to.
At the conference, he said that Mexico maintains in force the decree that establishes the express prohibition of using transgenic corn in products for human consumption, only yellow corn is allowed for animal fodder.
“Importers of corn from abroad do not like this, but we have suggested that we jointly carry out research so that neither Mexico nor the United States consume genetically modified corn and so far they have not accepted it. They can do their studies, imagine the companies that are behind this, because in everything there are preferences, they are so powerful that they influence the designation of the Nobel Prizes,” said López Obrador.
-What would Mexico do if it loses this case with the United States?
-There are panels that are agreed between countries when these discrepancies exist, such as international courts to go to. They and we go and that is where they resolve. So far there has been no problem because there is still trade in corn. What we do is that we maintain our decree of not using genetically modified corn for human consumption.
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