«They are applying for permission to include it in the Code to prevent any trade issues, in
the event small amounts of the rice inadvertently end up in shipments of other rice imported into Australia.»
According to the Testbiotech report, the nutritional quality
of Golden
Rice produced a much
smaller amount of carotenoids (3.5 — 10.9 micrograms per gram or ug / g) compared to the original Golden
Rice event, which was supposed to produce more than 30 ug / g.