In the month of September 2018, eight countries around the world made approvals for commercial use of biotech crops. Taiwan made approvals for biotech maize and canola for food use. Philippines approved herbicide tolerant soybean for food, feed and industrial processing while Columbia approved five biotech maize events for feed and processing. Currently at number three in the top ten biotech cultivating countries, Argentina approved disease resistant biotech potato and a maize event improved for both herbicide tolerance and insect resistance. Brazil approved insect resistant cotton and a stacked event of soybean improved for herbicide tolerance and product quality. Australia and New Zealand approved biotech cotton modified for insect resistance while South Korea approved herbicide tolerant maize for food use.`
| September 26, 2018 | South Korea approved maize event VCO-Ø1981-5 (HT) for food use. |
| September 18, 2018 | Australia and New Zealand approved cotton event MON88702 (IR) for food use. |
| September 10, 2018 | Taiwan approved maize event MON89034 x TC1507 x NK603 x MIR162(HT + IR) for food use. |
| September 10, 2018 | Brazil approved cotton event 281-24-236 x 3006-210-23 x COT102(IR) and soybean event DP305423 x GTS 40-3-2 (HT + PQ) for commercialization. |
| September 10, 2018 | Argentina approved potato event TIC-AR233-5 (DR) for commercialization. |
| September 10, 2018 | Argentina approved maize event MON87427 x MON89034 x MON88017(HT + IR) for commercialization. |
| September 10, 2018 | Colombia approved maize events MON89034 x TC1507 x NK603 x MIR162 (HT + IR), MON87419 (HT), MON87751 x MON87701 x MON87708 x MON89788 (HT + IR), MON87708 x MON89788 x A5547-127 (HT), and MZIR098 (HT + IR) for feed and processing use. |
| September 10, 2018 | Philippines approved soybean event FG72 x A5547-127 (HT) for food, feed, and processing use. |
| September 4, 2018 | Taiwan approved canola event MS11 (HT + PC) for food use. |
| September 4, 2018 | Taiwan approved maize events MIR162 x MON89Ø34 (IR) and MON87427 x MON89034 x MIR162 x MON87411 (HT + IR) for food use. |