The Resolution of the Chief Sanitary Inspector of RF of 30.11.2007 N 80 “On Supervision over the Circulation of Food Products Containing GMO”. Together with MR 2.3.2.2306-07. 23.2. Food Products and Food Supplements. “Medico-biological assessment of the safety of genetically engineered modified organisms of plant origin. Methodical Regulations”, “MR  4.2.2304-07. Control methods and microbiological factors. Food products and food supplements. Methods for identification and quantification of genetically engineered modified organisms of plant origin. Methodical Regulations”, “MR 4.2.2305-07. 4.2.Control methods. Biological and microbiological factors. Food products and food supplements. Detection of genetically engineered modified microorganisms and microorganisms, having genetically engineered modified analogues, in food products by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods and PCR with electrophoretic detection. Methodical Regulations”.
The resolution is valid on the territory of the Republic of Belarus after the accession to the Customs Union and sets the rules of medico-biological assessment of the safety of genetically engineered modified organisms of plant origin in addition to the previously developed national regulation.

Scope. Methodical Regulations establish requirements to assessment of the safety of genetically engineered modified organisms of plant origin (GMO).  The Requirements stated in the Methodical Regulations are applied at the stage of the state registration of GMO entering the food market  for the first time.  The Methodical Regulations were worked out to provide a uniform scientifically based system of GMO safety assessment and consider new methodical approaches both developed in Russia and recommended by the international organizations (WHO, FAO, etc.).