China approves imports of DuPont Pioneer soybean variety -DuPont

St Dupont SA

22/12/2014 16:20

By Tom Polansek 
    CHICAGO, Dec 22 (Reuters) - China has approved imports of a 
genetically modified DuPont Pioneer  DD.N  soybean variety, the 
company said on Monday, confirming the last of three expected 
approvals of biotech U.S. crops from different seed companies. 
    DuPont Pioneer received "official notice today of the new 
approval" for a Plenish soybean product, engineered to produce a 
healthier type of soybean oil, a spokeswoman said. 
    U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said last week that 
China had approved imports of U.S.-grown Agrisure Viptera corn, 
developed by Swiss-based Syngenta  SYNN.VX , as well as 
shipments of biotech soybeans developed by Bayer CropScience and 
DuPont Pioneer. However, the companies had not received official 
notices from China.  ID:nL1N0U1232  
    Syngenta said on Monday it received official notice, while 
Bayer received notice of approval on Friday.  ID:nL3N0U62OL  
 
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