Source: Russia InfoCentre via Checkbiotech

Only 14 types of genetically modified organisms (GMO) have passed the tests and were registered in Russia since 1996, the head of the Nutrition Institute said recently.

Among them there are "three lines of soy beans, three potato kinds, sixteen corn lines, one line of rice and one line of sugar beet", listed the scientist. "Compare mentioned data with the European Union statistics, which reports about 21 type of GMO – one soy beans line, eleven maize lines, four lines of rape and five cotton lines – and with the US – 133 GMO".

If Russia gets over the barrier of GMO, permitted for using in our country (many GMO are prohibited to be used in food products, as well as many transgenic plants are prohibited to be cultivated), then cultivation areas of GMO in Russia will appear. Now Russia has no cultivation areas for genetically modified plants.

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