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Title A growing concern : protecting the food supply in an era of pharmaceutical and industrial crops / David Andow . [and others]
Published Cambridge, MA : USC Publictions, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 125 pages) : illustrations, digital, PDF file
Summary A Growing Concern addresses the challenge of protecting the U.S. food supply from contamination by crops genetically engineered to produce drugs and industrial substances ("pharma" crops). Six experts commissioned by UCS to analyze this problem concluded that corn and soybean cannot be used as pharma crops while preventing contamination of the food supply--unless substantial changes are made to the commodity production and management practices applied to pharma crops
Notes "December 2004."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Title from title screen (viewed March 30, 2009)
Preserved in the OCLC Digital Archive. Harvested from http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/pharma_fullreport.pdf on April 29, 2011
Mode of access: Internet
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Subject Genetically modified foods -- United States -- Safety measures
Food supply -- Government policy -- United States -- Safety measures
Agricultural biotechnology.
Pharmaceutical biotechnology.
Food supply -- Environmental aspects
Transgenic plants -- Field experiments -- Safety measures
Corn industry -- United States
Soybean industry -- United States
Agricultural biotechnology.
Corn industry.
Food supply -- Environmental aspects.
Pharmaceutical biotechnology.
Soybean industry.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Andow, David
Union of Concerned Scientists.