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GM mustard approval after long, exhaustive process: Centre to SC

This comes after the court told the Centre on November 3 not to allow the planting of genetically modified (GM) mustard until the next hearing

Raise coverage under food security Act: Supreme Court tells Centre

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Bhavini Mishra Sanjeeb Mukherjee New Delhi

3 min read Last Updated : Nov 10 2022 | 10:28 PM IST

The government has told the Supreme Court that approval for the “environmental” release of transgenic mustard hybrid DMH-11 has been given to the Centre for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants (CGMCP) after a long and exhaustive review process, which started in 2010.

This comes after the court told the Centre on November 3 not to allow the planting of genetically modified (GM) mustard until the next hearing.

The Centre had told the court it needed time to put the latest facts on record.

The affidavit is perhaps the first official acknowledgement by the government of the processes followed in the

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