Supreme Court of Mexico ratifies ban on cultivation of transgenic corn

The 1st Panel of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) of Mexico unanimously denied, on Wednesday (13), the support of the judicial review promoted in 2016 by the companies Bayer-Monsanto, Syngenta, PHI Mexico and others, to suspend the precautionary measure that definitively prohibits the commercial cultivation of genetically modified corn in the country. Prepared by Minister and Judge Norma Lucía Piña Hernández, the draft resolution establishes that the 2016 judgment did not, at any time, contravene the principles of legal certainty and the protection of trust, arguments that the companies raised to overturn the injunction. The members of the Complainant Collective in Defense of Maize highlighted, in a statement, that the resolution allows the judges to dictate the appropriate measures to protect the collective rights and interests and called the 130 arguments that the Court rejected as "empty and misleading". :: Meet the Argentine who will profit if transgenic wheat ...