Rice Biopharming for Lactoferrin and Lysozymes in Kansas?
Filed in archive Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics , Food and Agriculture , Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics by ruth on July 18, 2006

So now, Ventria is lookingat other options, and has shortlisted Kansas as an alternative site to gror their recombinant rice on. Since Kansas do not grow rice for commercial production, it solves the issue of cross-contamination. Still, I am with Jane Rissler, a senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists:
"This is not agricultural production - this is drug production," Rissler said. "This is pharmaceutical production and pharmaceutical production in food plants should be discouraged."
There is little to no opposition from Kansas residents so far, so it's seems that it's just a matter of making sure that rice can, agronomically speaking, indeed be grown in the state. Otherwise, Ventria may turn to North Carolina.
Read more from Kansas.com.
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