BioTrack Product Database

SYN-IR162-4
Transformation Event	MIR162
Trade Name	MIR162
Applicant	Syngenta
Organism Common Names	Maize
Organism Scientific Names	Zea mays
Centre of Origin and Diversity	Biology Consensus Document on Maize
Food and Feed Safety Issues	Compositional considerations for Maize
Methods for safe handling
Additional Information
Traits	Lepidoptera resistance
Genes	Modified vip3A, phosphomannose isomerase (pmi)

Date of approval	Type of use	Authority	Decision	Risk assessment	Methods for detections-Reference materials
Australia
February 12, 2009	Food	Food Standard Australia New Zealand	A1001

Japan
Date of approval	Type of use	Authority	Decision	Risk assessment	Methods for detections-Reference materials
June 01, 2010	Feed	Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF)
January 21, 2010	Food	Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)
June 11, 2010	Unconfined Planting	Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries and Ministry of the Environment	JP_D_SYN-IR162-4	JP_A_SYN-IR162-4

Mexico
Date of approval	Type of use	Authority	Decision	Risk assessment	Methods for detections-Reference materials
January 20, 2010	Processing	The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk - COFEPRIS (Secretary of Health)
January 20, 2010	Food and Feed	The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk - COFEPRIS (Secretary of Health)

New Zealand
Date of approval	Type of use	Authority	Decision	Risk assessment	Methods for detections-Reference materials
April 16, 2009	Food	Food Standard Australia New Zealand	A1001