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Fri May 21 2021
The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to protect consumers from accessing and consuming hazardous goods and services, especially Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
The Executive Vice Chairman of FCCPC, Barr. Tunde Irukera said the collaboration becomes important as they need biosafety agencies to be able to work in view of the provision of the law which established the agency.
He said the debate about food safety is raging and hence the need for credible science, adding that his agency lacks the lab to detect GMOs, so they will have to collaborate with the Biosafety agency to do that and resulting in the pact.
NBMA signs MoU with FCCPC on GM products regulation
NBMA signs MoU with FCCPC on GM products regulation
The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) on the regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and its products thereof.
Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the NBMA, Dr. Rufus Ebegba, while speaking at the event which held in the office of the FCCPC in Abuja today, said the NBMA is ready to collaborate and synergize with the FCCPC in ensuring the safety and protection of consumers health and right and the environment in the release of GMOs.
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BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) - China’s soybean imports from Brazil surged in April from the previous month, customs data showed on Thursday, boosted by the arrival of cargoes that were ordered earlier in the year but delayed after rain hit the Brazilian crop.
The world’s top importer of soybeans brought in 5.08 million tonnes of the oilseed from leading supplier Brazil in April, sharply up from only 315,334 tonnes in March, data from the General Administration of Customs showed.
But the figure was still below 5.939 million tonnes in the same month last year.
Chinese crushers stepped up purchases of soybeans earlier this year in expectation of increasing demand for animal feed from the steadily recovering pig sector. Rain, however, delayed the harvest and exports from Brazil.