AgbioInvestor’s free-to-access service AgbioInvestor GM Monitor has identified the following GM trait approvals up to September 2023. Expanded details on these recently approved traits, as well as for approvals dating back as far as 1992, can be found on AgbioInvestor’s GM Monitor website.

Bayer’s insect resistant genetic event MON 95379 maize has received food/feed import approval in both the EU and Indonesia. The trait was developed by Bayer and possesses two lepidopteran resistance genes, Cry1B.868 and Cry1Da_7, both originating from Bacillus thuringiensis.

Cry1B.868 and Cry1Da_7 are relatively recently discovered insect resistant traits and have not been granted individual approval, however the MON 95379 Event containing them has received cultivation approval in Brazil in two other combinations - MON 87411 x MON 87427 x MON 95379 and MIR162 x MON 88017 x MON 87427 x MON 95379 - both of which possess stacked traits that provide lepidopteran and coleopteran insect resistance along with glyphosate tolerance.

MON 95379 was first granted cultivation approval in Brazil in 2020, followed by approvals in Canada and South Africa in 2021. Its first food/feed approval was in Canada in 2021, and it received further approvals in Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan and the USA in 2022, with its latest food/feed approvals being for use in the EU and Indonesia, shown in the table above. It has received food only approval in Australia & New Zealand in 2022 and in Singapore in 2023.