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The cure for aids may be accidentally working it's way into the food chain on 11/21/02 10:54 PM, Steve Wingate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > US Won't Say Which > Pharmaceutical GM Crop Escaped > Mysterious Pharmaceutical GM > Crop Goes Wrong in the US > Friends of the Earth International (Amsterdam) > News Release > 11-21-2 > > BRUSSELS -- US Authoritites unwilling as of today to > report which > Genetically Modified Pharmaceutical maize was found in > the food chain > > The United States food chain has been contaminated by > Genetically > Modified (GM) maize plants used to produce a > pharmaceutical or > industrial chemical but US authorities are unwilling as > of today to > disclose what the mysterious GM Pharmaceutical maize is > that was > found for the first time among food crops in two US > States (Iowa and > Nebraska). > > Friends of the Earth is seeking urgent reassurance from > the European > Commission that food in Europe has not been > contaminated. The > company that produced the maize, Prodigene, carries out > a range of > outdoor tests on crops containing pharmaceuticals and > industrial > products in at least 96 locations in the US. > > The ProdiGene incidents reportedly frustrated the US > food industry, > which stated on Thursday Nov. 14 that biotech companies > need to > change which crops they have chosen to make drugs and > industrial > products. > > This was an accident waiting to happen. If you grow GM > crops outdoors > then they will eventually contaminate the rest of the > food chain. We are > seeking urgent reassurances that food imported into > Europe has not > been contaminated, said Adrian Bebb, GM Campaigner at > Friends of > the Earth. > > The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on > Tuesday Nov. > 12 that it quarantined over $2.7 million worth of soya > beans (500,000 > tonnes) destined for human consumption at a Nebraska > grain elevator > after finding parts of ProdiGene's GM maize mixed with > the soya beans. > They later ordered their destruction. > > USDA authorities, who refuse to reveal the chemical or > drug genetically > engineered in the GM maize, also claim that a similar > incident happened > last year involving the same company. The soya crop was > planted and > harvested on the same site where a GM pharmaceutical > maize was > grown on the previous year. Seeds dropped by the maize > grew this year > and contaminated the soya crop. > > Friends of the Earth, as part of a wider US coalition, > warned the US > Government earlier this year that this could happen. The > coalition is > now filing a legal petition demanding an immediate halt > to the outdoor > growing of pharmaceutical GM crops. > > Research into the company involved, Prodigene, reveals > that the > contamination could be one of the following : > > * AIDS vaccine gp120 -- a glycoprotein > > * Blood-clotting agent -- Aprotinin > > * Trypsin - Digestive enzyme that can be used in leather > tanning or to > produce insulin. > > * Industrial adhesive Laccase -- an enzyme derived from > a fungus > > Other pharmaceutical GM crops reportedly grown by > ProdiGene include > experimental oral vaccines for hepatitis B and for a pig > disease, > transmissible gastroenteritis. 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