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Regulating Altered Genes
Piller, Charles | October 25, 1986 issue

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A new presidential policy directive regulating the development and release into the environment of products of biotechnology, signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on June 18, greatly relaxes restrictions on what many environmentalists see as an already dangerously underregulated industry. At the heart of the debate are genetically altered organisms developed as pesticides, animal vaccines arid frost protectors for plants. The most controversial organism is a form of the common bacterium pseudoinonas, which a company in Oakland, California, called Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc. wants to market under the name Frostban.

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BIOTECHNOLOGY; PRESIDENTS -- United States; REAGAN, Ronald; ADVANCED Genetic Sciences Inc.; GENETIC engineering; UNITED States
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