Mexico’s health safety regulator has rejected a Bayer GM corn trait – HT3 SmartStax Pro – because it contains a glyphosate tolerance.
Bayer tells Brownfield Ag News the decision won’t impact their business and they believe it was made for non-science based reasons, contributing to industry concern about the potential erosion of “a robust evidence-based product approval process.” Bayer paused its hybrid development work on HT3 corn products last year because of delays in the EU regulatory approval process to focus on their fourth generation herbicide tolerant corn which is also under review in Mexico.
