Chinese regulators discussed changes in inspection requirements for shipments of corn byproducts United States, according to four people with direct knowledge.
Imports of dried distillers grains currently require government certification that contain 162 MIR, a variety of genetically modified maize. Regulators extend the analyzes to third inspection regime at a meeting with industry officials in Beijing last week, said the four people, who declined to be identified because the talks were private.
China is the largest buyer of DDGS, which is used in animal feed and produced when corn is stripped of starch for ethanol production. The country began to refuse shipments of maize and derived products containing MIR 162 in November.
Chinese officials discussed inspections using a method chain reaction polymerase, the people said. This process involves the replication of a small sample of genetic material for the presence of specific genes. Shipments would still be subject to further inspection in China, according to the people. There was no final agreement and further meetings have been scheduled yet, said.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision Office in Beijing did not respond to a request for comment sent by fax. Bryan Lohmar, director of the Grains Council of the United States in China, declined to comment. Sally Klusaritz a Washington-based spokesman for the Department of Agriculture of the United States, did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside normal business hours.
Imports of dried distillers grains currently require government certification that contain 162 MIR, a variety of genetically modified maize. Regulators extend the analyzes to third inspection regime at a meeting with industry officials in Beijing last week, said the four people, who declined to be identified because the talks were private.
China is the largest buyer of DDGS, which is used in animal feed and produced when corn is stripped of starch for ethanol production. The country began to refuse shipments of maize and derived products containing MIR 162 in November.
Chinese officials discussed inspections using a method chain reaction polymerase, the people said. This process involves the replication of a small sample of genetic material for the presence of specific genes. Shipments would still be subject to further inspection in China, according to the people. There was no final agreement and further meetings have been scheduled yet, said.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision Office in Beijing did not respond to a request for comment sent by fax. Bryan Lohmar, director of the Grains Council of the United States in China, declined to comment. Sally Klusaritz a Washington-based spokesman for the Department of Agriculture of the United States, did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside normal business hours.
