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Lani · 03-13-2011, 07:11 AM

Probably regulatory problems. If plants grow our drugs, who regulates the product, FDA or Dept, of Agriculture.

Drug companies are a lot more powerful than farmers, also

They have for another example been talking for about 30 years about making flu vaccines in another way than growing them in eggs--and only now is this new technology MAYBE going to start becoming available.

Things don't alway move quickly in drug/vaccine development especially when an entirely new technology is involved

03-13-2011, 07:11 AM	#5
Lani Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,783	Re: new GM crop--plant made herceptin-- may provide herceptin at lower cost! Probably regulatory problems. If plants grow our drugs, who regulates the product, FDA or Dept, of Agriculture. Drug companies are a lot more powerful than farmers, also They have for another example been talking for about 30 years about making flu vaccines in another way than growing them in eggs--and only now is this new technology MAYBE going to start becoming available. Things don't alway move quickly in drug/vaccine development especially when an entirely new technology is involved