‘Clear Scientific Evidence’ of Harms from GMO Corn, Glyphosate, Mexico Tells U.S. • Children’s Health Defense

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A Mexican standoff with the U.S. turned into a Mexican smack-down this month with the release of Mexico’s formal rebuttal to U.S. efforts to overturn limits Mexico has ordered on the use of genetically modified (GM) corn and the weedkilling chemical glyphosate.

 

In a 189-page report filed with a panel of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Mexico laid out in stark terms why it has ordered that GM corn not be used for tortillas and dough that people eat and why it has ordered its farmers to stop using glyphosate by 2024.

 

“Mexico has legitimate concerns about the safety and innocuousness of genetically modified corn … and its indissoluble relationship with its technological package that includes glyphosate,” the government’s report states.

 

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