The FSSAI authority issued time to time notification / advisory to restrict or prohibit the unfair or unhygienic import from outside India. FSSAI authority had recently issued guidelines for importing the specific food crops from outside India. Any importer who is having the FSSAI License or FSSAI Registration and importing the food crops as mentioned below, have to obtain the Non-GM origin cum GM free certificate as per prescribed format from competent National Authority of the exporting country. The order shall be effective from 01st January 2021 and applicable to all over India and will be Implementing to all the importers holding FSSAI License for importing specific food crops.
Following are the food crops for which Non-GM cum GM free certificate is mandatory. Here the meaning of Non-GM means is the food crops which is not “Genetically engineered or modified”
1. Alfalfa
2. Apple
3. Argentina Canola
4. Bean
5. Chicory
6. Cowpea
7. Egg Plant (Brinjal)
8. Flax Seed Linumusitatissimum L
9. Maize
10. Melon
11. Papaya
12. Pineapple
13. Plum
14. Polish Canola
15. Potato
16. Rice
17. Safflower
18. Soybean
19. Squash
20. Sugar beet
21. Sugarcane
22. Sweet pepper
23. Tomato Lycopersicon esculentum
24. Wheat