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...group of more than 20 congressmen hopes to place a moratorium on the approval of any more animal patents until the ethics of the situation can come under closer scrutiny. The legislation would also revoke the Harvard patent until a decision were reached...
...minimize any such risks, two bills currently before Congress call for a moratorium on granting animal patents until the issues can be examined more completely. Farm groups, for example, feel genetically altered livestock could raise production costs, since farmers might have to pay royalty fees to biotech concerns every time their prize livestock give birth. Says Howard Lyman, an analyst for the National Farmer's Union: "This is an economic issue...
...move, applauded by abortion foes, was prompted by a National Institutes of Health proposal to treat Parkinson's patients with fetal brain tissue, a technique used for the first time by physicians in Mexico City last January. Reaction to the moratorium ranged from outrage to cautious endorsement. "A complete ban really blocks the prospects of investigating what could be a promising medical procedure," says Dr. Robert Burke, a neurologist at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. A better approach, he thinks, would be to allow research in a few supervised institutions to continue while the debate on the ethical...
...this activity [of granting patents for animals] is to be regulated, it should be done through the normal regulatory process and not through placing a moratorium on issuing patents on a particular type of invention," the letter states. Quigg said that such regulation should be carried out by agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, or the National Institutes of Health, rather than by Congress...
...Because of the environmental and ethical impact of creating genetically altered animals for commercial exploitation, at least a two-year moratorium on the patents is advisable," says Leah D.T. Zuch, director of the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, an animal advocacy organization...