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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Belinda Martineau |
ISBN: | 0071360565 9780071360562 |
OCLC Number: | 45708207 |
Description: | xvi, 269 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The gleam in management's eye -- Scientific conception (amid misconceptions and controversy) -- Virgin territory : plant genetic engineering and U.S. regulatory agencies --The long, hard regulatory labor : the Flavr savr tomato advisory opinion -- Transition from a science-driven to a business-driven enterprise -- Overpromised, underdelivered -- Afterbirth. |
Responsibility: | Belinda Martineau. |
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Abstract:
A look at the making of the Flavr Savr tomato, the first genetically engineered whole food ever brought to market, from its conception to its disappearance. The author reveals how genetic engineering is really done and how the regulatory system does and does not work.
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