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Article: Bioengineered Rice Takes Center of Debate over Using Food Crops to Grow Drugs.
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- April 16, 2004
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By Paul Jacobs, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 16--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- There are two very different views of Ventria Bioscience, the company that can turn a field of rice into a factory for producing human medicine.
There's the way Ventria sees itself -- as a biotechnology company hard at work on medical products that could save lives.
"Without our technology those products could never end up in use for human health, not in our lifetime," says Ventria Chief Executive Scott Deeter.
And then there's the view of opponents, who see the firm as a harbinger
of a new biotech age that ...