India has frozen requests to commercially release a locally developed
genetically modified mustard, an environment ministry document released
on Tuesday showed, amid stiff opposition to lab-altered food from
domestic activists and politicians.
The mustard variety would have been the first transgenic food crop to
be allowed for commercial cultivation. But the environment ministry's
Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has deferred approval
despite a panel the ministry supervises giving the genetically modified
(GM) mustard technical clearance last year.
"Subsequent to receipt of various representations from different
stakeholders, matters related to environmental release of transgenic
mustard are kept pending for further review," the GEAC said in minutes
of a meeting released on the environment ministry's website marked
"confidential and restricted circulation".
Cotton is the only GM crop currently allowed to be sold in the
world's second most populous country where arable land is shrinking.
U.S. company Monsanto Co dominates the cotton seed market in India, and
often faces resistance from local companies over its position.
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