The French Government’s biotechnology advisory council has published an outline of rules for a voluntary GMO-free labelling system.

The vast majority of the nation's two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents. Ninety-three percent of soybeans. Eighty percent of corn. The seeds represent "probably the most revolutionary event in grain crops over the last 30 years," said Geno Lowe, a Salisbury, Md., soybean farmer.

Origin Agritech Limited, a biotech company based in Beijing, has received the Biosafety Certificate from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture as a final approval for commercial approval of the world's first genetically modified phytase corn. The transgenic corn is the product of a seven-year study by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

The Philippine Court of Appeals (CA) in a 21 page decision by Associate Justice Vicente Veloso has recently granted the consolidated petitions filed by the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) and Bayer, which sought to nullify the decision made by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) banning BPI from granting Bayer's application to use LLRice 62 in the country.