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21. U.S. federal court trules biopharm permits illegal (14/8/2006): (2006); ... ue in the case authorized Monsanto, ProdiGene, Garst Seed Company, and the Hawai'i Agriculture Research Center to plant over 800 acres (1.25 square miles) of drug-producing corn and sugarcane at variou ...; Created on 14 August 2006
22. Pharma field trials around the world (2/8/2006): (2006); ... taken from nor the gene itself nor the acreage of the trial is available to the public. The contamination scandal with ProdiGene in 2002, however, changed things slightly and led to a tightened regulatory ...; Created on 02 August 2006
23. Urgent action alert on French pharma crops (19/7/2006): (2006); ... o produce a vaccine for transmissible gastroenteritis vaccine in pigs developed by Prodigene contaminated a following soya crop destined for human food and animal feed. The incident highlights the ris ...; Created on 19 July 2006
24. FDA advises voluntary disclosure of GMO crop tests: (2006); ... on bushels of soybeans delivered to the Aurora Cooperative elevator, 70 miles west of Lincoln. The soybeans and corn were destroyed before they could enter the food supply. ProdiGene, the Texas company t ...; Created on 22 June 2006
25. WEEKLY WATCH number 179: (News review); ... SA where problems of contamination have already occurred. In 2003, GM maize containing genes to produce a vaccine for transmissible gastroenteritis vaccine in pigs developed by Prodigene contaminated s ...; Created on 15 June 2006
26. France condemned for GM pharming test sites: (2006); ... y in the USA where problems of contamination have already occurred. In 2003, GM maize containing genes to produce a vaccine for transmissible gastroenteritis vaccine in pigs developed by Prodigene contaminat ...; Created on 13 June 2006
27. Re: Report blasts USDA oversight of test fields: (2006); ... to pharmaceutical or industrial crops, but there is special concern that those plants could contaminate conventional crops or get into the food supply. A small biotech company, ProdiGene Inc., was order ...; Created on 02 January 2006
28. Report blasts USDA oversight of test fields: (2005); ... A small biotech company, ProdiGene Inc., was ordered to pay more than $3 million in penalties and cleanup costs in 2002 after mismanaging field trials of pharmaceutical crops in Iowa and Nebraska. Pharm ...; Created on 30 December 2005
29. Agragen sows a crop of false assertions: (2005); ... u to believe that they have all the answers regarding accidental comingling, be it by pollen drift, seed mixture or other means. But they fail to talk about disasters such as Prodigene in Nebraska in ...; Created on 01 July 2005
30. Greenpeace doesn't back genetic engineering!!: (2005); ... ver, accidents involving the mixing of pharma crops with food meant for human consumption already have happened. In 2002, seeds from a GE corn-pharma-crop produced by Texas based company Prodigene were ...; Created on 17 May 2005
31. Veneman to take over UNICEF - protest!: (2005); ... lmost 40,000 sites between 1987 and 2002, rejecting only 3.5 % of applications. Her handling of the two GMO “crises” occurring during her tenure (those of Starlink and ProdiGene corn) resulted in US$2 ...; Created on 21 March 2005
32. Fahrenheit Agbiotech: (2005); ... , stacked genes) and the foods become functionally non-equivalent (i.e., nutraceuticals.) The infamous Starlink and Prodigene incidents are highlighted as instances of regulatory problems. The film make ...; Created on 08 March 2005
33. Bad Seed / Canada mouthpiece for Monsanto?: (2005); ... ence Centre at Iowa State University in the United States. The technology could have prevented the ProdiGene incident where an unwanted second generation of experimental maize plants containing a prote ...; Created on 12 February 2005
34. Report warns investors about Monsanto risks: (2005); ... ood crops. Lack of complete knowledge is a problem for investors. For developers of GE crops it is the problem. Monsanto is also exposed to risks taken by competitors such as Aventis CropScience and Pro ...; Created on 19 January 2005
35. US to Rubber Stamp Transgene Contamination as Global Model: (2004); ... ar after the trial crop had been harvested. ProdiGene, the makers of the GM corn, paid out millions of dollars in damages and a $250 000 fine, although the product never reached the food chain. Adrian Be ...; Created on 21 December 2004
36. Oversight on Bioengineered Crops Is Poor, Report Says: (2004); ... tem could prevent cross-contamination. History shows that genetic isolation of crops is a challenge. In 2002, for example, ProdiGene Inc. botched efforts to contain a pig vaccine it was developing in c ...; Created on 16 December 2004
37. WEEKLY WATCH number 101: (News review); ... he low end of the scale for the US Dept of Agriculture, which oversees biotech crop field tests and movement of plants between states. In 2002, for instance, the USDA fined Texas-based ProdiGene Inc. $250, ...; Created on 02 December 2004
38. Contamination scandal - serious compliance violations get slap on the wrist: (2004); ... e, the USDA fined Texas-based ProdiGene Inc. $250,000 after federal inspectors found biotech corn that had been engineered to produce a pharmaceutical compound growing among Nebraska soybeans. The US ...; Created on 01 December 2004
39. Critique of the Pontifical Academy's "Study-Document on the Use of Genetically Modified Plants to Combat Hunger in the World": (2004); ... s for use in research and diagnostics were being produced commercially in the United States by a company called Prodigene. These included avidin4, B-glucuronidase, aprotinin and trypsin. There has been very ...; Created on 28 November 2004
40. Row over drugs in crops continues: (2004); ... up because of the excusably human inability to distinguish between crops for food and crops for drugs. The 'contamination' of soybeans and non-GM corn in 2002 with a corn engineered by Prodigene to produce an ...; Created on 07 November 2004

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