Highlight: Mixed outlook for pharmaceutical crops in California
Pharmaceutical crops - those genetically engineered to produce medicines, vaccines and other pharmaceutical proteins - have been cultivated on a limited scale in California, amid increasing regulations, according to a review article published in the April-June 2007 issue of the University of California's peer-reviewed California Agriculture journal. The USDA imposed more stringent regulations on "pharma crop" field trials in 2003 to reduce risk of gene flow and contamination of human food and livestock feed. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE
