December 11, 2003 Comments Off on Drug companies make patent concessions Posted in: General Biotechnology Drug companies make patent concessions AIDS activists hailed a breakthrough agreement with two of the largest drug companies in South Africa Wednesday, saying it will help more poor people get vital medicines. They cited the Canadian government’s decision to override patent law for essential drugs for Africa as one key factor in persuading the pharmaceutical […]
December 10, 2003 Comments Off on Dutch Official Calls on Europe to Open Markets to Biotech Foods Posted in: General Biotechnology Dutch Official Calls on Europe to Open Markets to Biotech Foods Europe should no longer exclude genetically modified agricultural products from the U.S., in the view of Economic Affairs Minister Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst. ‘The U.S. rightly complains about trade barriers,’ he said yesterday in The Hague during a University of Leiden meeting.
