Dutch pull the plug on cow cloning
Enserink, M.
Science 279(5356): 1444
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-8075 PMID: 9508716 Document Number: 494453
The Dutch minister of agriculture has halted cloning experiments by Pharming, a company based in Leiden that specializes in producing drugs in milk. The government deemed that Pharming must desist from cloning cows until it shows that drugs from such animals are superior to those made by other methods. The decision underlined the Dutch authorities resolve to permit animal biotech only under strict conditions. In a pointed response, Pharming outlined plans to move its cloning research to the United States; Pharming vice president Gerard van Beynum said that the Dutch government abdicated its powers to regulate the proper use of cloning by driving the technology away.