ENTRIA BIOSCIENCES FACES SERIOUS MARKET AND LEGAL OBSTACLES WITH ITS PHARMACEUTICAL RICE
SOURCE: The Center for Food Safety, USA
AUTHOR: Press Release
URL: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/VentriaPR4_09_08.cf
DATE: 09.04.2008
Cera Products, Inc. Will Not Market Products That Contain Ventria's Genetically Engineered Rice Compounds
New Law May Prohibit Ventria from Marketing its Lead Drug in Food Products
Human Breast Milk Genes Inserted into Rice
NORTH SACRAMENTO-BASED VENTRIA SOWING A STORM WITH ALTERED RICE
SOURCE: Sacramento Bee, USA
AUTHOR: Jim Downing
URL: http://www.sacbee.com/103/story/469124.html
DATE: 03.11.2007
In a little town in Kansas, Sacramento's Ventria Bioscience is about to turn one of the biotechnology industry's long-held dreams and one of its critics' nightmares into reality.
For 14 years, Ventria has inched toward its vision of growing fields of genetically modified rice plants that would serve as cheap factories for medicine.
URGENT: Comments Needed to Help Stop Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus in SE US
Comments needed regarding USDA/APHIS Federal Docket No. APHIS-2007-0027 on genetically engineered (GE) Eucalyptus Tree Field Trials in Alabama: First US mainland release of flowering GE trees.
DEADLINE: MONDAY, MAY 21, 2007, 5pm Eastern
ArborGen seeks permission for GE Eucalyptus Field Trials of genetically engineered cold tolerant clones and GE Eucalyptus trees with confidential traits in Alabama. Published articles and industry reports indicate these traits likely include insect resistance and reduced lignin.
Plan to Plant Gene-Modified Rice Alarms Interest Groups
Plan to Plant Gene-Modified Rice Alarms Interest Groups
by Megan Tady
Source: newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/4757
Apr. 27 A government agency is currently weighing a controversial proposal to allow a biotechnology company to plant up to 3,200 acres of rice genetically modified to treat diarrhea.
Genetically Engineered Pharmaceutical Rice Is Not the Solution to Diarrhea
Center for Food Safety
Kansas Rural Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 24, 2007
Contacts: Bill Freese or Joseph Mendelson, Center for Food Safety, 202-547-9359
Dan Nagengast, Kansas Rural Center, 785-748-0959
Genetically Engineered Pharmaceutical Rice Is Not the Solution to Diarrhea
Drugs in Rice Not Approved by FDA, Will Likely Contaminate Foods
Groups Urge Ban on All Drug-Producing Genetically Engineered Food Crops
