linkedin post 2014-01-20 06:04:10

PHARMING HAD A BUMPY START, but remains a logical solution to human needs for inexpensive pharmaceuticals for diseases. Troubles started when a plant engineered to make trypsin was carelessly permitted to enter the normal crop system. “ProdiGene was fined $250,000 and ordered by the USDA to pay over $3 million in cleanup costs. This raised a furor and set the pharming field back, dramatically. Many companies went bankrupt as companies faced difficulties getting permits for field trials and investors fled.””
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