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To: Annette who wrote (359)	2/27/2000 9:42:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 472

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGHTINGS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Company Stops Breeding 'Franken-Fish' By Matt Drudge drudgereport.com 2-26-00 BLENHEIM, New Zealand (http://www.nandotimes.com) - A New Zealand company has agreed to kill all its genetically engineered fish to end a controversy involving leaked secret documents, deformed fish heads and gargantuan salmon. More than a year after New Zealand King Salmon Co. Ltd. was first accused of breeding mutant chinook salmon in the so-called "Franken-fish" experiment, the company announced Friday it would bury the remains of the specially grown fish and suspend its research. King Salmon's chief executive Paul Steere said the company made the decision after it had successfully introduced an additional growth hormone gene into chinook salmon and passed the trait down three generations. He denied the decision to suspend the project was influenced by political, ethical or scientific resistance. Opponents of the project have fought for more than a year to stop it after leaked secret papers showed deformed heads and other abnormalities had occurred during the breeding program. After receiving the new growth hormone gene, the salmon grew three times faster than the normal rate. According to the company, the genetically modified salmon could grow up to 550 pounds. Chinook, or Pacific king, the largest species of salmon, grow to 110 pounds in the wild. King Salmon has admitted some of the first-generation fish had developed lumps on their heads due to apparent genetic deformities. "All modified salmon have been killed and disposed of, in accordance with (scientific) containment protocols," Steere said in a statement. The company said it would retain frozen sperm from genetically engineered salmon "at a secure location" so it was available to continue the program in the future. The company's experimental work was halted as the government prepared to establish an inquiry into the project and its controls to prevent live salmon or fertile eggs escaping into the wild. SIGHTINGS HOMEPAGE This Site Served by TheHostPros

To: Annette who wrote (359)	2/28/2000 12:33:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 472

New case of mad cow disease reported in Denmark Copyright ¸ 2000 Nando Media Copyright ¸ 2000 Associated Press From Time to Time: Nando's in-depth look at the 20th century COPENHAGEN, Denmark (February 28, 2000 8:18 a.m. EST nandotimes.com) - A new case of mad cow disease was reported Monday in northern Denmark, the government said. The 4-year-old cow was immediately slaughtered, and the rest of the herd was put under observation. "It's totally incomprehensible. In Denmark, we have done all that is possible to avoid this," Lennart Korsgaard Nielsen, chairman of the Danish Livestock and Meat Board, said in an interview with public radio. It was the second known case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy - or mad cow disease - detected in this Nordic country. The first one occurred in 1992 when the disease was found on an animal imported from Britain. The case was detected in a herd in the northern part of the Jutland peninsula, which has the largest cattle population in Denmark with 364,500 head in 1998. Panic swept Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s after British-raised cattle contracted bovine spongiform encephalopathy and it was linked to a brain-wasting disease in humans. The European Union ruled in August that British beef was again safe for import, although France has maintained its ban. nandotimes.com