Viptera corn 'approved' for import

Crop at the center of US legal cases

The government is reported to have cleared the import of a type of genetically modified corn at the center of lawsuits against the Swiss seed developer Syngenta AG, a year after blocking the crop's entry.

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters that China's Ministry of Agriculture had also approved imports of biotech soybeans developed by DuPont Pioneer of the United States and Germany's Bayer CropScience AG.