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...Rifkin objected. That the assessment could be done after licensing and in two weeks was "ridiculous," he said. "You can't now put together a hurried little paper and call it an environmental assessment. That's what you call cheating...
...Rifkin's victory, however temporary, was still more bad news for the biotechnology industry, which has been stymied in its efforts to field test and market agricultural products containing genetically engineered live organisms. The defeats have been caused by a maze of confusing Government regulations, harassing legal actions and in some cases the industry's own blunders. Only last month, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency fined Advanced Genetic Sciences $20,000 and suspended its permit to field test a preparation called Frostban, which contains re-engineered bacteria designed to retard the formation of frost on plants. The agency charged...
Overblown press stories and Rifkin's rhetoric about the two cases have raised the specter of re-engineered microbes escaping into the environment with dire consequences. But most scientists are convinced that neither the Biologics viral vaccine nor the A.G.S. bacteria pose any threat to man, beast or plant...
Enter Jeremy Rifkin, who with several allies filed suit in a federal court, charging that NIH, in granting its approval, had failed to prepare environmental-impact statements. At hearings conducted by Federal Judge John Sirica, Rifkin and a few scientists who supported his view pointed to the troubles caused in the U.S. by the introduction of foreign organisms...
...Still, Rifkin won the day. In May 1984 Judge Sirica issued an injunction against the Tulelake test on the ground that NIH had not followed the required procedure in granting its approval...