Word: savr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recall the Flavr Savr, a tomato bioengineered to ripen on the vine and last months on the shelf. It might have been a huge moneymaker if only the thing had tasted like a tomato. Its maker, Calgene Inc., traded above $20 a share in 1992, but the stock subsequently rotted to $5, and Monsanto Co. has offered to buy the company for $7.25 a share...
...after decades of biotech setbacks and controversy, consumers finally have something they can sink their teeth into. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week endorsed as safe the first genetically altered food to be sold to consumers -- a tomato called the Flavr Savr and billed as offering "summertime taste" all year long. Calgene, the Davis, California- based company that produced Flavr Savr (and came up with that silly name), says its new tomato will appear in selected supermarkets in California and the Midwest this week and should be available across the rest of the country before...
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