The Mexican government is on the verge of approving field trials of GE maize for the first time since 1998, when it imposed a moratorium on the cultivation of GE maize. The government took this strong measure in 1998 because of significant scientific concern, from within and outside of Mexico, about the possible threat that GE maize posed to the center of maize diversity. Mexico is the birthplace of maize - its center of origin - and is still home to the priceless diversity of hundreds of native varieties of maize.

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