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Biotechnology
Splicing human genes into plants regains favor
June 26th, 2004
Biotechnology companies are quietly pushing to splice more human genes into food crops after the practice was nearly abandoned last year, a Washington-based advocacy group says. The news comes some 18 months after College Station, Texas-based Prodigene Inc. caused an uproar by accidentally mixing such crops with conventionally grown plants in Nebraska. At the time, giant food manufacturers called for tighter regulation of such experiments, and biotech titan Monsanto Co. announced it was pulling out of the field. The number of federal regulatory approvals and applications for these outdoor plantings, often called "biopharming" because the idea is to...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2004-06-26)
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