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Drug-Making Rice Plants Could Ruin California Economy

  • April 08, 2004

California exports 40 percent of its rice to Japan, which has among the world's strictest policies regarding genetically engineered food. California now risks losing $500 million if genetically modified rice crops from a Sacramento biotechnology company that is proposing to plant the nation's first commercial crop that's genetically engineered to produce a medicine. Although the concept of making drugs in rice may be new to some, I posted an article on this last year. These GMO crops are an...