Argentina greenlights GMO yeast for ethanol production

In Argentia, Energia Online reports the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries authorized the commercialization of the yeast Saccharomyce cerevisiae strains GICC03486 (GPY10009) and GICC03506 (GPY10023) last month, both with improved capacity for the production of bioethanol from the fermentation of grains.

The decision was made official through Resolution 3/2023 signed by the Secretary of Agriculture, Fernando Vilellea, and published this Tuesday in the Official Gazette, thus realizing an “old desire of the industry” since it “improves the productivity” of bioethanol, up to “3% more”, they confided from the Corn Bioethanol Chamber to Télam.

The official document details that after an analysis carried out by both the National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa) and the ad honorem Technical Advisory Committee on the use of Genetically Modified Organisms, “no scientific objections were found from the point of view of human and animal nutritional suitability”.