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    The Philippines has a long history with GMOs dating back to 1990 when the National Committee on Biosafety was created to develop guidelines for GMOs. The Philippines was the first Asian country to approve commercial cultivation of GMOs in 2002. Since then, over 70 GMO applications have been approved, mostly for food and feed. A 2010 organic agriculture law encouraged non-GMO farming. Regulations have been strengthened over time through various executive orders and inter-agency collaborations to improve oversight of GMO testing, imports, and commercialization.

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    The Philippines has a long history with GMOs dating back to 1990 when the National Committee on Biosafety was created to develop guidelines for GMOs. The Philippines was the first Asian country to approve commercial cultivation of GMOs in 2002. Since then, over 70 GMO applications have been approved, mostly for food and feed. A 2010 organic agriculture law encouraged non-GMO farming. Regulations have been strengthened over time through various executive orders and inter-agency collaborations to improve oversight of GMO testing, imports, and commercialization.

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    The Philippines has a long history with GMOs dating back to 1990 when the National Committee on Biosafety was created to develop guidelines for GMOs. The Philippines was the first Asian country to approve commercial cultivation of GMOs in 2002. Since then, over 70 GMO applications have been approved, mostly for food and feed. A 2010 organic agriculture law encouraged non-GMO farming. Regulations have been strengthened over time through various executive orders and inter-agency collaborations to improve oversight of GMO testing, imports, and commercialization.

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    GMOs in the Philippines Context

     The GMO concern started in the 1990s with te creation of the National Committee on Biosafety
    of the Philippines (NCBP) through the Executive Order No. 430 of 1990. They develped the
    guidelines on the planned release of Genetically Manipulated Organism (GMOs) and potentially
    harmful exotic species in 1998.
     The Philippines was markedto be the first cuntry in Asia to approved commercial cultivationof
    GMOs when GM corn planting was approved in 2002(Serapio & Dela Cruz,2016).
     From December 2002 to prsent, there are 70 GMO applications approved by the Department of
    Agriculture for h erelease to the environment.
     62 GMOs approved for food feed processing
     8 GMOs for propagation
     In 2004, the Philippines was classified by International Service for acquisition of agri-biotech
    applications as one of the fourteen biotech-mega countries which gorw 50,000 hectares or more
    GMOs crops annually (James,2004).
     2006
     Philippines became part of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
     Executive Order No. 514 was issued to address the biosafety requirements of the
    Cartagena Protocol
     Establishment of the National Biosafety Framework (NBF).
     2010
     The Organic Agriculture Act was issued, encouraging organic agriculture than GMO
    related agriculture.
     Prior to this act, there are several Provinces like Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental
    which agreed to support organic agriculture and ban the entry of GMOs and living
    GMOs to thier provinces through provincia ordinance.
     2012
     Rep. Teddy Casiño, together with other congressmen filed a bill pushing for the
    mandatory labelling of GM food and food products.
     There is no Philippines Biosafety law, only biosafety regulations formed under NBF.
     A study on the biosafety regulations of the Philippines concluded that the existing regulation is
    weak, which can be fixed through legislation such as a republic Act(Richmond,2006).
     December, 2015
     The supreme Court ordered to put an end to the field testing of GMO Bt eggplant and
    declared Administrative Order No. 8 series of 2002 of the department of Agriculture as
    null and void. This means any actions related to GMO importation and propagation os
    temporarily put on stop until a new administrative order is issued in accordance with
    the law.
     March 7, 2016
     Five Government Agencies who passed a Joint Department Circular No. 1 series of 2016
    o Department of Science and Technology
    o Department of Agriculture
    o Department of Environment and Natural Resources
    o Department of health
    o Department of Interior and Local Government.
     The joint Department Circular No.1 series of 2016 on rules and regulations for the
    research and development, handling and use, transboundary movement, release in the
    environent, and management of the genetically modified plants and plants products
    derived fro the use of modern biotechnology.

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