A BIOTECHNOLOGY company has agreed to pay the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) more than $3 million in penalties for contaminating soybean craws with genetically modified corn that contained an animal vaccine.

A BIOTECHNOLOGY company has agreed to pay the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) more than $3 million in penalties for contaminating soybean craws with genetically modified corn that contained an animal vaccine.
Although ProdiGene Inc. of community Station, Tex., neither admitted nor denied any violations of the federal Plant Protection Act, the company agreed to pay a civil penalty of $250000 In addition, the company will reimburse the USDA for all preciousnesss to acquire approximately 500000 bushels of contaminated soybeans--valued at $27 million--and to break up the beans.

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