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RECORD NUMBER: 14 OF 18| Main Title | Manufacturing drugs and chemicals in crops : biopharming poses new threats to consumers, farmers, food companies and the environment / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Freese, Bill. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Friends of the Earth, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2002 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 57406890 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Agricultural biotechnology ; Crops--Genetic engineering--Environmental aspects ; Transgenic plants--Risk assessment | |||||||||||
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| Collation | {104} p. ; 28 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | July 2002. |
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| Contents Notes | Executive summary.-- Recommendations.-- Introduction.-- What is a biopharmaceutical?-- The vast unknown.-- Why grow drugs in plants?-- Health risks in drug-growing plants.-- Environmental impacts of drug-growing plants.-- Regulation of drug-growing plants-- What will biopharming mean for farmers?-- Bibliography.--Appendix 1: Reducing the uncertainty.-- Appendix 2: Avidin Corn: lab experiment in the field.-- Appendix 3: Aprotinin and protease inhibitors.-- Appendix 4: Virally-vectored trichosanthin in tobacco.-- Appendix 5: Alternatives to open-air biopharming.-- Appendix 6: Biopharmaceutical plant field trials in the U.S. |