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International Trade Reporter Volume 16 Number 49 Thursday, December 16, 1999 Page 2027 ISSN 1523-2816 World News WTO Reconvening WTO Ministerial Meeting Will Take Some Time, EU Official Says

Reuters | December 15, 1999 | By Greg Frost PARIS - The environmental activist whose group backed a class action lawsuit filed against Monsanto Co said on Wednesday he would not rule out the U.S. government joining the suit as a plaintiff.

New York Times | December 14, 1999 | By ANDREW POLLACK OAKLAND, Calif. - As the Food and Drug Administration held the last of its three public hearings on bio-engineered food on Monday, hundreds of protesters staged what organizers said was the largest rally ever in the United States against the use of genetic engineering in food.

Business Wire | December 14, 1999 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - NetMarketor.com, an Internet marketing firm, announced today that the Internet domain name designergenes.com is for sale.

WALL STREET JOURNAL | By LUCETTE LAGNADO, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Elizabeth Wilcox, who runs a consortium of small family philanthropies in Oakland, Calif., wasn't particularly interested in the controversy surrounding bioengineered food until she heard Nell Newman speak in October.

The Chicago Sun-Times | December 13, 1999 | GRETCHEN RANDALL, SPECIAL TO THE SUN-TIMES

Reuters/Dow Jones | December 14, 1999 TOKYO - Japan's health ministry was cited as saying on Tuesday it would not approve any more genetically modified foods pending the introduction of tighter regulations next April.

SO FAR, THE MOVEMENT AGAINST G.M. CROPS HAS BEEN CONFINED TO EUROPE. BUT THANKS TO A LITTLE UNCERTAINTY AND A LOT OF AGITPROP, THAT'S CHANGING CNN | December 13, 1999 | FREDERIC GOLDEN | Source: Asia-Now, TIME, VOL. 154 NO. 23 If chief executives of leading U.S. agri-biotech companies have been suffering from heartburn lately, it isn't because of anything they've been eating.