“WE CAN REGULATE GMOs NOW”

Nationwide Biosafety Authority Chief Govt Officer, Lackson Tonga, says Zambia now has the means to succor watch over actions keen Genetically Modified Organisms – GMOs.
Mr. Tonga says this follows the appointment of a friendly scientific advisory committee which carries out danger review on all purposes for permits to import products of GMOs.
Mr Tonga changed into as soon as speaking for the length of the 2d Biosafety Clearing Residence Mission Workshop, in Livingstone presently time.
He extra talked about the Authority will this month signal a memorandum of thought with the Ministry of Effectively being, geared toward rising surveillance, monitoring an inspection mechanism.
Mr Tonga says as a mode of enhancing compliance, the Authority is also working with a lot of authorities agencies at aspects of entry, to test the forms of products which can maybe be entering the nation.