Publication archives

Dow Jones | November 25, 1999 KYOTO, Japan - The Nihon Keizai Shimbun was cited as reporting in its Friday morning edition that Takara Shuzo Co. and Mitsubishi Corp. will start a service measuring exactly how much genetically modified organisms are contained in imported soybeans and other foods from Dec. 1.

New York Times | November 26, 1999 | ANDREW POLLACK For generations, tribesmen in the Amazon rain forest have used secretions from the skin of a frog to make poison blow darts. Now Abbott Laboratories is developing a painkiller modeled on the active chemical in the frog secretion that seems as effective as morphine but without damaging side effects.

Associated Press | November 27, 1999 | By THAKSINA KHAIKAEW, Associated Press Writer PHETCHABUN, Thailand - Thailand is blessed with a gentle climate, abundant farmland and modern agribusiness that have made the small Southeast Asian nation an unlikely but important food exporter, the world leader for rice.

Reuters | November 20, 1999 | By Matthew Green PARIS - U.S. and European Union farmers Saturday urged the World Trade Organization (WTO) to adopt clear rules on global trade in genetically modified foods.

Reuters, The Washington Post | November 23, 1999

OBSERVER (London) | November 21, 1999 | Antony Barnett and Oliver Morgan A government 'Minister' for the Church of England, involved in a crucial decision on whether to allow the Ministry of Agriculture to use Church land for GM crop trials, earns thousands of pounds a year from Bell Pottinger - the lobbying and PR firm that advises Monsanto.

LA Times | November 20, 1999 | By PAUL JACOBS, KENNETH R. WEISS, Times Staff Writers Ending one of the most contentious legal disputes in its history, the University of California Board of Regents on Friday unanimously agreed to a $200-million settlement of a long-running patent infringement case against Genentech Inc.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch | November 21, 1999 | Jon Sawyer, Terence Samuel and Nahal Toosi