Decree No. 32 of the Chief Sanitary Inspector on supervision over foodstuffs containing GMOs. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 2006 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Genetically modified organism (GMO) Fraud Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Geographical area Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract This Decree recognizes the power of the Chief Sanitary Inspector to: (a) oblige legal persons and individual entrepreneurs that manufacture or trade in foodstuffs containing GMOs to comply with legislative requirements on the disclosure of such GMO components to the general population; (b) suppress the infringement of national legislation setting restrictions and precautionary and preventive measures to discourage violation of such disclosure provisions; and (c) strengthen control over imports of foodstuffs containing GMO components. Full text Russian Website www.garant.ru