The Government in 2007 approved a GM food management project under which Vietnam aims to have 70% of the country’s plant cultivation area using biological technology in 2020. Of this, plants with genetic modification will account for 30 to 50%.
Vietnam’s biotech scientists said that the country was working on a pilot scheme for using biotech to grow corn, soybean and some other crops, so the country would need to develop a GM food labeling law.
Vietnam’s Government is drafting a decree governing the safety of biotechnology-based foods, so the labeling of genetically modified foods is expected to start from 2015, according to the HCMC Biotechnology Center.
Genetically modified food is almost everywhere, vietnam net bridge, 21 September 2010-10-04
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