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Biopharming
Pharmaceutical Rice in Missouri Blocked
Ventria Bioscience sought permission to grow genetically engineered pharmaceutical rice in southeast Missouri, despite the likelihood that food-grade rice would become contaminated with pharmaceuticals. Find out why Missouri rice farmers and even the food industry oppose this risky application of biotechnology, and how "biopharming" has failed to live up to its promise.
Press release - "Pharmaceutical Rice in Missouri Threatens Food Supply," March 17, 2005
Briefing paper - "Pharmaceutical Rice in Missouri," February 2005
Letter - Friends of the Earth calls on USDA to veto proposed field trials in Missouri - March 17, 2005
Fact Sheet:
Biopharming: Questions and Answers pdf format or html format
Reports:
Pharmaceutical Rice in California. Find out about the potential health and environmental risks of engineering rice to produce "human" milk proteins in the rice fields of California. Executive Summary (PDF) Full Report (PDF)
Manufacturing Drugs and Chemicals in Crops: Biopharming Poses New Threats to Consumers, Farmers, Food Companies and the Environment - Executive Summary (PDF); Full Report (PDF - 390 kb or Word file - 1.8 MB)
Fact Sheet:
Biopharming: Questions and Answers pdf format or html format
Reports:
Pharmaceutical Rice in California. Find out about the potential health and environmental risks of engineering rice to produce "human" milk proteins in the rice fields of California. Executive Summary (PDF) Full Report (PDF)
Manufacturing Drugs and Chemicals in Crops: Biopharming Poses New Threats to Consumers, Farmers, Food Companies and the Environment - Executive Summary (PDF); Full Report (PDF - 390 kb or Word file - 1.8 MB)
List of All Biopharmaceutical Plant Field Trials in the U.S.: 1991 to June 2002
Appendices
Press Releases:
GM Crop Safety Tests 'Flawed,' New Scientific Paper Shows
A peer-reviewed scientific paper published today in Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews debunks the myth that genetically modified (GM) crops are thoroughly tested, regulated and proven safe. - Nov. 16, 2004
Biopharmaceutical Contamination Could Be: Aids Vaccine or Blood Thickener
Coalition to File Legal Petition Demanding Immediate Halt of Experimental Biopharmaceuticals Grown on Farms - Nov. 14, 2002
Reckless USDA Policy Fails to Keep Biopharmaceuticals out of Food Supply
Coalition Calls on the USDA for Contamination Information Including Name of Drug or Chemical Being Withheld - Nov. 13, 2002
Drugs And Chemicals Will Contaminate Food Supply Concludes New Report - July 11, 2002
Communications with Government:
Learn what's wrong with the FDA & USDA's weak guidelines for industry on biopharming.
Learn why biopharming with food crops will inevitably lead to drugs in the food supply; also, the inside scoop on government-industry secrecy re: biopharming
Read the letter we sent to the United States Department of Agriculture after they announced the contamination of food crops by biopharmaceutical corn - Nov. 13, 2002
Read the USDA's response to our letter requesting an end to open-air cultivation of biopharm crops - Oct. 9, 2002
Letter sent to USDA demands an end to open-air cultivation of biopharm crops - July 10, 2002
Article:
Hard to Believe! Prodigene the leading biopharm company seeks to weaken measures to prevent contamination - Summer 2001 (pdf format)
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