# Page 1955 – Mexico News Daily

> Greenpeace and another NGO questioned whether President López Obrador will enforce his pledge to ban genetically modified products in Mexico. The skepticism follows his appointment of Alfonso Romo, a former Seminis CEO, as chief of staff and Víctor Villalobos, former head of the GM biosafety agency CIBIOGEM, as agriculture secretary.

- Date: 2018-12-12 · published 2018-12-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Mexico · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/61513-page-1955-mexico-news-daily
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [DDGS](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DDGS.md)

## Why it matters

A real GM ban, especially on corn, would threaten Mexico's large imports of US yellow corn for feed, a key price driver for US corn and DDGS. For now the pledge is unclear in scope, so the impact is limited to sentiment.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: neutral
- DDGS: neutral

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## Sources

- mexiconewsdaily.com: https://mexiconewsdaily.com/page/1955/?p=findahome.asp&page=extranet&selected=dashboard

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