Title: Yvonne Tasker-Rothenberg
Author: Azur Moulaert
Last saved by: Bill Pease
Company: Home PC

202-547-9429
Yvonne Tasker-Rothenberg
5211 Hook Circle , Jamesville, NY 13078 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Yvonne Tasker-Rothenberg
5211 Hook Circle
Jamesville, NY 13078

202-547-9429
Barbara Hannelore
47 Amador , Goleta, CA 93117 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Barbara Hannelore
47 Amador
Goleta, CA 93117

202-547-9429
Norma J F Harrison
1312 Cornell , Berkeley, CA 94702 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Norma J F Harrison
1312 Cornell
Berkeley, CA 94702

202-547-9429
Eric Michielssen
2310 Clark Valley Rd. , Los Osos, CA 93402 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Eric Michielssen
2310 Clark Valley Rd.
Los Osos, CA 93402

202-547-9429
Lori Ann Burd
3051 SE Belmont #4 , Portland, OR 97214 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lori Ann Burd
3051 SE Belmont #4
Portland, OR 97214

202-547-9429
Larry Wood
405 Landis Circle , Auburn, CA 95603 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Larry Wood
405 Landis Circle
Auburn, CA 95603

202-547-9429
Ruth Lanton
15 Mitchell Ave , Plainview, NY 11803 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ruth Lanton
15 Mitchell Ave
Plainview, NY 11803

202-547-9429
Robert and Joan Ross
P.O. Box 454 36 Madison Avenue East, New  Baltimore, NY 121240454 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Robert and Joan Ross
P.O. Box 454
36 Madison Avenue East
New  Baltimore, NY 12124-0454

202-547-9429
Sister Carol Boschert
204 N. Main , O'Fallon, MO 633662203 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sister Carol Boschert
204 N. Main
O'Fallon, MO 63366-2203

202-547-9429
susan nowak
1390 veteran , los angeles, CA 90024 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
susan nowak
1390 veteran
los angeles, CA 90024

202-547-9429
Gonzalo Duran
1116 Palms Blvd , Venice, CA 902913525 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gonzalo Duran
1116 Palms Blvd
Venice, CA 90291-3525

202-547-9429
Anne Louise Parry
7425 Pelican Bay Blvd , Naples, FL 34108 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anne Louise Parry
7425 Pelican Bay Blvd
Naples, FL 34108

202-547-9429
Liane Casten
1030 Asbury Ave. , Evanston, IL 60202 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Liane Casten
1030 Asbury Ave.
Evanston, IL 60202

202-547-9429
Paul Wilkins
2303 Cedros Cir , Santa Fe, NM 875055252 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Paul Wilkins
2303 Cedros Cir
Santa Fe, NM 87505-5252

202-547-9429
Margaret Weston
6810 Deatonhill #303 , Austin, TX 78745 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Who will be responsible for mistakes, contamination, and redress? This technology is too dangerous to turn loose in the environment.

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. 

Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination, nor to take responsibility for the consequences!

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Margaret Weston
6810 Deatonhill #303
Austin, TX 78745

202-547-9429
William Douglas
10100 Roe Avenue , Overland Park, KS 66207 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

You have no right to contaminate my state with irresponsible science that creates life forms that can never be re-called, no matter what unforseen damage they may cause to our environment.

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
William Douglas
10100 Roe Avenue
Overland Park, KS 66207

202-547-9429
Kathy Robles
59 Seafoam Avenue , Winfield Park, NJ 07036 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kathy Robles
59 Seafoam Avenue
Winfield Park, NJ 07036

202-547-9429
Cynthia Carroll
2570 Coventry Road , Shaker Heights, OH 441201304 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Cynthia Carroll
2570 Coventry Road
Shaker Heights, OH 44120-1304

202-547-9429
Art Hanson
1815 Briarwood Dr. , Lansing, MI 48917-1773 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Art Hanson
1815 Briarwood Dr.
Lansing, MI 48917-1773

202-547-9429
Abhi Sachdev
2221 Historic Decatur Road #62, San Diego, CA 92106 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Abhi Sachdev
2221 Historic Decatur Road
#62
San Diego, CA 92106

202-547-9429
Steven Taormina
1401 Pearl Street , Boulder, CO 80302 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Steven Taormina
1401 Pearl Street
Boulder, CO 80302

202-547-9429
Elizabeth Watkins
6712 Granada Rd. , Prairie Village, KS 66208 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Watkins
6712 Granada Rd.
Prairie Village, KS 66208

202-547-9429
Kurt Kiebler
9816 Outlook Dr. , Shawnee Mission, KS 66207 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kurt Kiebler
9816 Outlook Dr.
Shawnee Mission, KS 66207

202-547-9429
Michael Murphy
203 W 38th St , Kansas City, MO 64111 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Michael Murphy
203 W 38th St
Kansas City, MO 64111

202-547-9429
Merle Hayward
1574 Wailuku Drive , Hilo, HI 96720 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Merle Hayward
1574 Wailuku Drive
Hilo, HI 96720

202-547-9429
Amy Agigian
33 Corinthian Rd , Somerville, MA 021441823 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Amy Agigian
33 Corinthian Rd
Somerville, MA 02144-1823

202-547-9429
Yoni Silberman
PO Box 880010 , Pukalani, HI 967880010 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Yoni Silberman
PO Box 880010
Pukalani, HI 96788-0010

202-547-9429
Mary Mclean
P.O. Box 413 , Telluride, CO 81435 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

It has been proven that pharmaceutical and industrial food crops WILL contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses SERIOUS risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. NEITHER the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination. In fact, the USDA is not likely to be trusted at all if these are the sorts of things it promotes.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the FRAGILE US rice market, and ENDANGER the health of the public. 

I DEMAND that the USDA deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mary Mclean
P.O. Box 413
Telluride, CO 81435

202-547-9429
Terry Huey
P.O. Box 22253 , Lexington, KY 405222253 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Terry Huey
P.O. Box 22253
Lexington, KY 40522-2253

202-547-9429
Stefano Monti
25 Atherton St. #24 , Somerville, MA 02143 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Stefano Monti
25 Atherton St. #24
Somerville, MA 02143

202-547-9429
Jenny Leistikow
171-B Hawaiiana Street , Kapaa, HI 96746 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jenny Leistikow
171-B Hawaiiana Street
Kapaa, HI 96746

202-547-9429
Andrea Pike
16120 Park Place , Bow, WA 98232 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Andrea Pike
16120 Park Place
Bow, WA 98232

202-547-9429
Pat Blackwell
1124 Red Coat Drive , Charlotte, NC 28211-4744 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Pat Blackwell
1124 Red Coat Drive
Charlotte, NC 28211-4744

202-547-9429
Julie Glur
1412 S. 28th Street, #10 , Arlington, VA 22206 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Julie Glur
1412 S. 28th Street, #10
Arlington, VA 22206

202-547-9429
William Blackwell
1124 Red Coat Drive , Charlotte, NC 28211-4744 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
William Blackwell
1124 Red Coat Drive
Charlotte, NC 28211-4744

202-547-9429
Deborah Press
9 Sedgwick Lane , Rockville, MD 20852 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Deborah Press
9 Sedgwick Lane
Rockville, MD 20852

202-547-9429
Tammi Joy Parsons
6986 County Road 8 NE , Kandiyohi, MN 56251 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tammi Joy Parsons
6986 County Road 8 NE
Kandiyohi, MN 56251

202-547-9429
Karen Eble
58 Lee Lynn Lane , Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

Other crops have also been contaminated with GE material.  Enough is enough!!!

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Karen Eble
58 Lee Lynn Lane
Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006

202-547-9429
Dan Golembeski
627 Michigan St , Petoskey, MI 49770 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dan Golembeski
627 Michigan St
Petoskey, MI 49770

202-547-9429
Jennifer Christensen
10611 20th Ave S , Seattle, WA 98168 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Christensen
10611 20th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98168

202-547-9429
Lucy Nerus
14343 Addison street apt 324, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lucy Nerus
14343 Addison street
apt 324
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

202-547-9429
Theresa Tober
1000 East Divide Avenue , Bismarck, ND 58506 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Theresa Tober
1000 East Divide Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58506

202-547-9429
Marieken Volz
179 Grove Street , Rutland, VT 05701 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Marieken Volz
179 Grove Street
Rutland, VT 05701

202-547-9429
Scott Haas
17980 SW Johnson St Unit F, Beaverton, OR 97006 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Scott Haas
17980 SW Johnson St
Unit F
Beaverton, OR 97006

202-547-9429
Dave Jordan
47 Franklin , Northlake, IL 60164 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dave Jordan
47 Franklin
Northlake, IL 60164

202-547-9429
Michael Glynn, ND
321-8 Spring St. , Red Bank, NJ 07701 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Michael Glynn, ND
321-8 Spring St.
Red Bank, NJ 07701

202-547-9429
Anthony Stapleton
63 Sweet Briar Grove Edmonton, London,  N9 9LU United Kingdom

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anthony Stapleton
63 Sweet Briar Grove
Edmonton
London N9 9LU

202-547-9429
T Hart
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March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
T Hart

202-547-9429
Robert Zai
89 Lumley Ave. , Ft. Thomas, KY 41075 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Robert Zai
89 Lumley Ave.
Ft. Thomas, KY 41075

202-547-9429
Vincent L
129  reserve circle 109 , oviedo, FL 32765 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to irreversibly contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where the winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. This contamination poses VERY, VERY serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I strongly urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Vincent L
129  reserve circle 109
oviedo, FL 32765

202-547-9429
Judy Poe
2900 kanuga road , Hendersonville, NC 28739 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Judy Poe
2900 kanuga road
Hendersonville, NC 28739

202-547-9429
Laurel Wright
3671 S. 2140 E. , Salt Lake City, UT 84109 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Laurel Wright
3671 S. 2140 E.
Salt Lake City, UT 84109

202-547-9429
Deva Hauber
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March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Deva Hauber

202-547-9429
Concetta Cantelmo
61 Clinton Ave , Budd  Lake, NJ 078283119 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Concetta Cantelmo
61 Clinton Ave
Budd  Lake, NJ 07828-3119

202-547-9429
James Facette
3140 Waialae Ave #323 , Honolulu, HI 96816 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
James Facette
3140 Waialae Ave #323
Honolulu, HI 96816

202-547-9429
Les Dethlefsen
10141 A Pasadena Ave. , Cupertino, CA 95014 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Les Dethlefsen
10141 A Pasadena Ave.
Cupertino, CA 95014

202-547-9429
Mary K. Lassich
768-B W. Pine St. , Bishop, CA 93514 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mary K. Lassich
768-B W. Pine St.
Bishop, CA 93514

202-547-9429
Patty Metz
One Scenic Dr. Apt. 1101, Highlands, NJ 07732 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Patty Metz
One Scenic Dr.
Apt. 1101
Highlands, NJ 07732

202-547-9429
Rebecca Tippens
68 Van Nuys Rd , Colrain, MA 01340 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Rebecca Tippens
68 Van Nuys Rd
Colrain, MA 01340

202-547-9429
Anita Soper
16420 300 th Ave. , Gettysburg, SD 574428629 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anita Soper
16420 300 th Ave.
Gettysburg, SD 57442-8629

202-547-9429
gail kaiser
5145 ashton pines lane , sarasota, FL 34231 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
gail kaiser
5145 ashton pines lane
sarasota, FL 34231

202-547-9429
vitold kobisz
6167 s. crawford , mt. pleasant, MI 48858 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
vitold kobisz
6167 s. crawford
mt. pleasant, MI 48858

202-547-9429
Alfred S. Fuller
2712 Sol Y Luz Loop , Santa Fe, NM 87505 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Alfred S. Fuller
2712 Sol Y Luz Loop
Santa Fe, NM 87505

202-547-9429
Scott Stollenwerk
2140 Madison st , la Crosse, WI 54601 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Scott Stollenwerk
2140 Madison st
la Crosse, WI 54601

202-547-9429
Patricia Farrelly
24 locust ave, Apt. 17 , Islip, NY 11751 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Patricia Farrelly
24 locust ave, Apt. 17
Islip, NY 11751

202-547-9429
Anngela Leone
235 E. 95th street , New York, NY 10128 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anngela Leone
235 E. 95th street
New York, NY 10128

202-547-9429
Laura Michaels
112-E Crescent Ln. , Stelle, IL 60919 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Laura Michaels
112-E Crescent Ln.
Stelle, IL 60919

202-547-9429
Gayle Conard
11247 Bethesda Church Road , Damascus, MD 20872 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gayle Conard
11247 Bethesda Church Road
Damascus, MD 20872

202-547-9429
Mikel Russell
 , ,   

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mikel Russell

202-547-9429
Cortni Weig
3606 parkridge #214 , Dallas, TX  

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Cortni Weig
3606 parkridge #214
Dallas, TX

202-547-9429
Joyce Dillon
 , ,   

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joyce Dillon

202-547-9429
Carl Stein
45 Castro Street #402 , San Francisco, CA 94114 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Carl Stein
45 Castro Street #402
San Francisco, CA 94114

202-547-9429
Joan McElwee
2626 Kenzie Terrace , Minneapolis, MN 55418 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops often contaminate the food supply especially with crops grown outdoors in tornado-prone on the plains of the US as Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields. Therefore, possible contamination poses serious risks to human health and threatens the lively hood of farmers who could be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination, which is certainly a troubling thought.

As we know, the rice industry is in trouble financially from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. We need to support our US rice growers and not import more rice from overseas, as we to cannot control their growing conditions, making the food product even more risky for us in this country.

I strongly urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.  I strongly feel this is a grave error, and if expermentation be done it be done in a strictly controlled setting where wind and other weather condition could not possibly endanger our lives.

PLEASE!!!!  Do not allow such actions to continue as we value our health and our wonderful planet, Mother Earth.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Joan McElwee
2626 Kenzie Terrace
Minneapolis, MN 55418

202-547-9429
Debra Dean
1325 Royal Saint George , Naperville, IL 60563 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Debra Dean
1325 Royal Saint George
Naperville, IL 60563

202-547-9429
Greg Lewerenz
734 N. 78th St , Seattle, WA 98103 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Greg Lewerenz
734 N. 78th St
Seattle, WA 98103

202-547-9429
Jean Johnson
 , , BC  Canada

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jean Johnson
BC

202-547-9429
Joan Lawson
308 E Republican St #907 , Seattle, WA 98102 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joan Lawson
308 E Republican St #907
Seattle, WA 98102

202-547-9429
Gregory Nerode
406 Cayuga Heights Road , Ithaca, NY 14850 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gregory Nerode
406 Cayuga Heights Road
Ithaca, NY 14850

202-547-9429
Michael Ellenby
118 East Palomino Dr , Tempe, AZ 85284 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Michael Ellenby
118 East Palomino Dr
Tempe, AZ 85284

202-547-9429
George Robinson
"116 Pinehurst Avenue, K-12" , New York, NY 10033 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
George Robinson
"116 Pinehurst Avenue, K-12"
New York, NY 10033

202-547-9429
Kristen Rapsher
4100 Saddlemire Road , Binghamton, NY 13903 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kristen Rapsher
4100 Saddlemire Road
Binghamton, NY 13903

202-547-9429
Gregory Baccari
213A Gordon Street , Charleston, SC 29403 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gregory Baccari
213A Gordon Street
Charleston, SC 29403

202-547-9429
Evelyn Avoglia
140-2 Woodside Green , Stamford, CT 06905 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Evelyn Avoglia
140-2 Woodside Green
Stamford, CT 06905

202-547-9429
David Niimi
402 River Ridge Dr , Asheville, NC 28803 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
David Niimi
402 River Ridge Dr
Asheville, NC 28803

202-547-9429
michelle galo
1059 s adams st , olympia, WA 98501 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
michelle galo
1059 s adams st
olympia, WA 98501

202-547-9429
Karen Power
185 Park Row Apt. 21B, New York, NY 10038 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Karen Power
185 Park Row
Apt. 21B
New York, NY 10038

202-547-9429
Tom Taylor
 , , MN  

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tom Taylor
MN

202-547-9429
Lee Bracker
2000 N. Camino Serna #2, Tucson, AZ 85715 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lee Bracker
2000 N. Camino Serna
#2
Tucson, AZ 85715

202-547-9429
Jack Hill
1445 N. Fairfax Ave. Apt. 205, West Hollywood, CA 90046-3927 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

I am absolutely OUTRAGED that companies can be allowed to commit this kind of experiment in the open, whose effects are almost certainly irreversible.  Remember the "kille bees" in Brazil that were so carefully confined to keep them from contaminating the honeybee population? Now they're HERE.  Nobody knows what the effects of releasing such frankenfoods into the environment may ultimately be.  Haven't we already had enough evidence that they can be devastating in unpredictable ways? PLEASE STOP THIS MADNESS!

Sincerely,
Jack Hill
1445 N. Fairfax Ave.
Apt. 205
West Hollywood, CA 90046-3927

202-547-9429
Melissa Dyas
26 East Fourth Street , Bloomsburg, PA 17815 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Melissa Dyas
26 East Fourth Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815

202-547-9429
Robert Stolzman
14618 Tyler Foote Road , Nevada City, CA 959599316 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Robert Stolzman
14618 Tyler Foote Road
Nevada City, CA 95959-9316

202-547-9429
Meri Dreyfuss
7 Lakeview Ct , Novato, CA 94947 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Meri Dreyfuss
7 Lakeview Ct
Novato, CA 94947

202-547-9429
K Renee
 , ,  90043 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
K Renee
 90043

202-547-9429
Alexandra Nilsson
5200 W Napoleon Ave #D , Metairie, LA 70001 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Alexandra Nilsson
5200 W Napoleon Ave #D
Metairie, LA 70001

202-547-9429
L.A. Duram
607 Surrey , Carbondale, IL 62901 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

We do not know enough... Please do not allow this to move forward!

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
L.A. Duram
607 Surrey
Carbondale, IL 62901

202-547-9429
Todd Lininger
2090 N 28th St , Boise, ID 83703-5840 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Todd Lininger
2090 N 28th St
Boise, ID 83703-5840

202-547-9429
Toni Snidow
9323 Manchaca Rd., #1124 , Austin, TX 78748 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Toni Snidow
9323 Manchaca Rd., #1124
Austin, TX 78748

202-547-9429
Angi Kizewski
1396 Asbury Street , Saint Paul, MN 55108 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Angi Kizewski
1396 Asbury Street
Saint Paul, MN 55108

202-547-9429
Val Hansen
963 Hwy 287N #27 , Cameron, MT 597209724 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Val Hansen
963 Hwy 287N #27
Cameron, MT 59720-9724

202-547-9429
Joseph Brandolo
360 Almonesson Road , Blackwood, NJ 08012 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joseph Brandolo
360 Almonesson Road
Blackwood, NJ 08012

202-547-9429
David Goetze
1726 lawrence st , Port townsend, WA 98368 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
David Goetze
1726 lawrence st
Port townsend, WA 98368

202-547-9429
Stuart Kelso
box 76 , Lenox, MA 01240 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

STOP MESSING WITH OUR FOOD !!! Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.  PLEASE DO SOMETHING NICE FOR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN.  I WILL BE CONTACTING MY SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AND URGING THEM TO CUT FUNDING FOR THE usda IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO NASTY THINGS LIKE THIS TO ME. 

Sincerely,
Stuart Kelso
box 76
Lenox, MA 01240

202-547-9429
Debra Klein
2076 Chanticleer Ave. , Santa Cruz, CA 95062 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Debra Klein
2076 Chanticleer Ave.
Santa Cruz, CA 95062

202-547-9429
John Womack
383 Stamey Mountain Road , Franklin, NC 28734 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
John Womack
383 Stamey Mountain Road
Franklin, NC 28734

202-547-9429
Olga Zharkova
7919 236th St. SW , Edmonds, WA 98026 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Olga Zharkova
7919 236th St. SW
Edmonds, WA 98026

202-547-9429
Amy Todisco
120 Maple Drive , Huntington, VT 05462 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Amy Todisco
120 Maple Drive
Huntington, VT 05462

202-547-9429
Stephanie Tagtow
3921 quail run , Pearland, TX 77584 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Stephanie Tagtow
3921 quail run
Pearland, TX 77584

202-547-9429
Coral Stevenson
10379 Knollside Drive , Parker, CO 80134 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Coral Stevenson
10379 Knollside Drive
Parker, CO 80134

202-547-9429
Janet Ackerman
15781 Hayes Trail , APPLE VALLEY, MN 55124 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Janet Ackerman
15781 Hayes Trail
APPLE VALLEY, MN 55124

202-547-9429
Diane van Hoff
20 N College St #3 , Weaverville, NC 28787 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Diane van Hoff
20 N College St #3
Weaverville, NC 28787

202-547-9429
Jane Parr-Whitehead
2765 SW Feroe Avenue , Palm City, FL 34990 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jane Parr-Whitehead
2765 SW Feroe Avenue
Palm City, FL 34990

202-547-9429
Alexander Deming
7 North Maryland Ave , Port Washington, NY 11050 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Alexander Deming
7 North Maryland Ave
Port Washington, NY 11050

202-547-9429
Virginia Lewis
1037 North Dwight Avenue , Dallas, TX 75211 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Virginia Lewis
1037 North Dwight Avenue
Dallas, TX 75211

202-547-9429
Robert Stovall
709 Old Coupland Rd. , Taylor, TX 76574 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Robert Stovall
709 Old Coupland Rd.
Taylor, TX 76574

202-547-9429
Jacquelyn Bentley
225Schoolhouse Rd. , ALbaNY, NY 12203 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jacquelyn Bentley
225Schoolhouse Rd.
ALbaNY, NY 12203

202-547-9429
Sandra Spicher
7314 White Oak Dr. , Lago Vista, TX 78645 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sandra Spicher
7314 White Oak Dr.
Lago Vista, TX 78645

202-547-9429
Isaac Shamah
219 N Broadway , NYack, NY 10960 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Isaac Shamah
219 N Broadway
NYack, NY 10960

202-547-9429
Gladies Barker
"4600 Connecticut Ave., NW, Apt. 602" , "Washington,", DC 20008 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gladies Barker
"4600 Connecticut Ave., NW, Apt. 602"
"Washington,", DC 20008

202-547-9429
Poosakey Poosakey
960 Division Street , Bandon, OR 97411 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Poosakey Poosakey
960 Division Street
Bandon, OR 97411

202-547-9429
Pamela Nordhof
3135 60th St. , Hamilton, MI 49419 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Pamela Nordhof
3135 60th St.
Hamilton, MI 49419

202-547-9429
Susan Demander
10469 E. Pinewood Dr. , Parker, CO 801387803 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Susan Demander
10469 E. Pinewood Dr.
Parker, CO 80138-7803

202-547-9429
Cyndi Seamon
562 Norton St , Longboat Key, FL 34228 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Cyndi Seamon
562 Norton St
Longboat Key, FL 34228

202-547-9429
Lisa Wong
7751 10th Ave. SW , Seattle, WA 981062021 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lisa Wong
7751 10th Ave. SW
Seattle, WA 98106-2021

202-547-9429
E. Unum
2035 San Pablo Ave. , Berkeley, CA 94703 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
E. Unum
2035 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94703

202-547-9429
Jackie Hannigan
625 W Anderson ST apt 3, Idaho Falls, ID 83402 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jackie Hannigan
625 W Anderson ST
apt 3
Idaho Falls, ID 83402

202-547-9429
Sandra Heggen
1571 CR 4953 , Kempner, TX 76539 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sandra Heggen
1571 CR 4953
Kempner, TX 76539

202-547-9429
Ignacia Jensen
P.O. Box 27496 , San Francisco, CA 941270496 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ignacia Jensen
P.O. Box 27496
San Francisco, CA 94127-0496

202-547-9429
alexandru megas
lake parkway , webster, MA 01570 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I DEMAND the USDA, which has a history in making irresponsible deals with many biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies, as part of what appears to be a common AGENDA, to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of GE pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a PERMANENT ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
alexandru megas
lake parkway
webster, MA 01570

202-547-9429
Rachel Wolf
403 Emeline Avenue , Santa Cruz, CA 95060 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Rachel Wolf
403 Emeline Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

202-547-9429
Sara Schmidt
2034 Hilltop Drive , Arnold, MO 63010 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sara Schmidt
2034 Hilltop Drive
Arnold, MO 63010

202-547-9429
Glen Zorn
1310 East Thomas Street Apt 306, Seattle, WA 98102 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Glen Zorn
1310 East Thomas Street
Apt 306
Seattle, WA 98102

202-547-9429
Ronan Shannahan
 , , TX 78717 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ronan Shannahan
TX 78717

202-547-9429
Paula Mueller
7053 Lindsey Ave SE #102 , Auburn, WA 98092 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Paula Mueller
7053 Lindsey Ave SE #102
Auburn, WA 98092

202-547-9429
Jeffrey Smith
P. O. Box 469 , Fairfield, IA 52556 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey Smith
P. O. Box 469
Fairfield, IA 52556

202-547-9429
Roland Goyette
49 Dorrance St , Danielson, CT 06239 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Roland Goyette
49 Dorrance St
Danielson, CT 06239

202-547-9429
Rick Mousley
1798 Pine Ridge Dr/Box 2637 , Gearhart, OR 97138 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Rick Mousley
1798 Pine Ridge Dr/Box 2637
Gearhart, OR 97138

202-547-9429
Jean Autrey
3449 Golden Rain Rd. #4 , Walnut Creek, CA 94595 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

It is the height of insanity to continue testing genetically modified food crops in wind pollinated varieties.  It is particularly insane to even consider approval of pharmaceutical rice testing when the medicinal effects have not been reviewed or approved by the FDA.

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Thank you for listening.

Sincerely,
Jean Autrey
3449 Golden Rain Rd. #4
Walnut Creek, CA 94595

202-547-9429
Jen Hadraba
2508 S. Blue Island Ave. #2 , Chicago, IL 60608 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jen Hadraba
2508 S. Blue Island Ave. #2
Chicago, IL 60608

202-547-9429
Joele Jaffe
3901 Center GAte Circle , Sarasota, FL 34233 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joele Jaffe
3901 Center GAte Circle
Sarasota, FL 34233

202-547-9429
Steven White DTR
10 Garden Pl , Spring Valley, NY 10977 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Steven White DTR
10 Garden Pl
Spring Valley, NY 10977

202-547-9429
Anne Shirinian-Orlando
68 Koenig Lane , Freehold, NJ 07728 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anne Shirinian-Orlando
68 Koenig Lane
Freehold, NJ 07728

202-547-9429
Betsy Schildwachter
1440 Ferris Pl , Bronx, NY 10461 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Betsy Schildwachter
1440 Ferris Pl
Bronx, NY 10461

202-547-9429
Karen Miller
155 E. Boardwalk #300, Fort Collins, CO 80525 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Karen Miller
155 E. Boardwalk
#300
Fort Collins, CO 80525

202-547-9429
Robert Blackwell
1124 Red Coat Drive , Charlotte, NC 28211 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Robert Blackwell
1124 Red Coat Drive
Charlotte, NC 28211

202-547-9429
Naira Matevosian
P.O.Box 359 , Agoura Hills, CA 91376 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Naira Matevosian
P.O.Box 359
Agoura Hills, CA 91376

202-547-9429
Bob Lloyd
499 Phinneys Lane , Centerville, MA 02632 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Although this letter is thw same as many others, it is no less sincere. Allowing human gene GE rice to be grown in open fields, is an open door to UNCHARTERED areas. Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Bob Lloyd
499 Phinneys Lane
Centerville, MA 02632

202-547-9429
Donna Howarth
2229 Montgomery Ave , Woodbridge, VA 22191 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Donna Howarth
2229 Montgomery Ave
Woodbridge, VA 22191

202-547-9429
Francisco Costa
67665 Ontina Rd. , Cathedral City, CA 92234 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Francisco Costa
67665 Ontina Rd.
Cathedral City, CA 92234

202-547-9429
Ruby Ray
1153 Powell street , San Francisco, CA 94108 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.  Please think seriously about what you are doing and the damage to our food chain that this will cause.

Sincerely,
Ruby Ray
1153 Powell street
San Francisco, CA 94108

202-547-9429
Aria Alpert Leonidov
216 Notteargenta Road , Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Aria Alpert Leonidov
216 Notteargenta Road
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

202-547-9429
Dave Hermeyer
1124 Page Street #4 , San Francisco, CA 94117 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dave Hermeyer
1124 Page Street #4
San Francisco, CA 94117

202-547-9429
Chris Sausser
3645 N. Greenview , Chicago, IL 60613 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!  STOP MESSING WITH OUR FOOD. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN!!

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Chris Sausser
3645 N. Greenview
Chicago, IL 60613

202-547-9429
Eric Slomanson
1869 Golden Gate Ave. , San Francisco, CA 941154310 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Eric Slomanson
1869 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94115-4310

202-547-9429
Susan Davis
6348 Pocahontas Club Rd. , Virginia Beach, VA 23457 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Susan Davis
6348 Pocahontas Club Rd.
Virginia Beach, VA 23457

202-547-9429
Eugene Dunlevy
5100 CHIPMAN DR. , COLUMBUS, OH 43232 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Eugene Dunlevy
5100 CHIPMAN DR.
COLUMBUS, OH 43232

202-547-9429
Kathleen Terrell
39 Van Wagenen Ave , Jersey City, NJ 07306 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kathleen Terrell
39 Van Wagenen Ave
Jersey City, NJ 07306

202-547-9429
Justin Lamkin
P.O. Box 532 , Kittery, ME 3904 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

Moreover we have all the food and herbs already in our unaltered food supply if we eat correctly.  Stop pandering to the Industrial Food Business Complex for money!

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Justin Lamkin
P.O. Box 532
Kittery, ME 3904

202-547-9429
Dan Gotch
1114 Kenet Pl. , Pacific Grove, CA 93950 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dan Gotch
1114 Kenet Pl.
Pacific Grove, CA 93950

202-547-9429
Sheila Globus
4 Whispering Pine , Sudbury, MA 1776 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sheila Globus
4 Whispering Pine
Sudbury, MA 1776

202-547-9429
Margot Boteler
1403 Chelsea Way , Redwood City, CA 94061 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Margot Boteler
1403 Chelsea Way
Redwood City, CA 94061

202-547-9429
Margaret Glowka
55 Emmett Ave. 2405, Toronto, ON, ON M6M 2E4 Canada

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Margaret Glowka
55 Emmett Ave.
2405
Toronto, ON, ON M6M 2E4

202-547-9429
Agi Groff
25 Greenview Dr. , Defiance, MO 63341 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

I was born and raised in Germany and have lived (legally!) in the U.S. for almost 10 years. I have started eating organic foods and foods from local farmers since I do not trust in genetically engineered foods. How do we know what the long term concequences of them are? Rice engineered with a human gene? No thank you! How much do these companies pay the USDA to approve these products?
Please do not let this happen!

Sincerely,
Agi Groff
25 Greenview Dr.
Defiance, MO 63341

202-547-9429
Matthew Swyers
1020 Dolores St. #28 , Livermore, CA 94550 

March 26, 2007   6:40 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Stop experimenting on the population!

Sincerely,
Matthew Swyers
1020 Dolores St. #28
Livermore, CA 94550

202-547-9429
Erenie Desipris
1109 Farmingdale Rd , Jackson, NJ 08527 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Erenie Desipris
1109 Farmingdale Rd
Jackson, NJ 08527

202-547-9429
Veronica Johnson
499 West Morris Rd. , Morris, CT 06763 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.
 I hope that the USDA will protect the people they are supposed to serve, not the companies that lobby the most.

Sincerely,
Veronica Johnson
499 West Morris Rd.
Morris, CT 06763

202-547-9429
Dodie Needham
PO Box 14671 , Tumwater, WA 98511 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dodie Needham
PO Box 14671
Tumwater, WA 98511

202-547-9429
William Crawford
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March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
William Crawford

202-547-9429
Will Beuscher
94 Webster St. , West Newton, MA 02465 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Will Beuscher
94 Webster St.
West Newton, MA 02465

202-547-9429
Genevieve Jacobs
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March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Genevieve Jacobs

202-547-9429
Annette Saroyan
1838  Indiana St , Vallejo, CA 94590 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Thank you for your consideration in this urgent matter.

Sincerely,
Annette Saroyan
1838  Indiana St
Vallejo, CA 94590

202-547-9429
Carol Castellow
19 Ocean Drive Harborage, Key Largo, FL 33037 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Carol Castellow
19 Ocean Drive
Harborage
Key Largo, FL 33037

202-547-9429
Elizabeth Stowers
P.O. Box 2247 , Monterey, CA 93942 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Stowers
P.O. Box 2247
Monterey, CA 93942

202-547-9429
John Miksa
1124 W Euclid Ave , Milwaukee, WI 53215 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
John Miksa
1124 W Euclid Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53215

202-547-9429
William Roark
2705  Bluebell Circle , Antioch, CA 94531 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
William Roark
2705  Bluebell Circle
Antioch, CA 94531

202-547-9429
Helen Altomare
57 Clinton  Ave , East Patchogue, NY 11772 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Helen Altomare
57 Clinton  Ave
East Patchogue, NY 11772

202-547-9429
Ethel Goosby
3817 Bay Leaf Way , Oceanside, CA 92057 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ethel Goosby
3817 Bay Leaf Way
Oceanside, CA 92057

202-547-9429
Karen Jackson
12554 Miranda St. , Valley Village, CA 91607 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny franken rice

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Karen Jackson
12554 Miranda St.
Valley Village, CA 91607

202-547-9429
Craig McDonald
211 Sunrise St. , Granville, OH 43023 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Craig McDonald
211 Sunrise St.
Granville, OH 43023

202-547-9429
Landale Family
116 Brooks St , Medford, MA 2155 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Landale Family
116 Brooks St
Medford, MA 2155

202-547-9429
Irene Tsakiris
64 Hollywood Ave , West Long Branch, NJ 07764 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Irene Tsakiris
64 Hollywood Ave
West Long Branch, NJ 07764

202-547-9429
Rita Robbins
11293 Shepard Hill Rd , Willis, TX 77318 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Rita Robbins
11293 Shepard Hill Rd
Willis, TX 77318

202-547-9429
Maria Marchegiani
1837 NW 111 Ave , Plantation, FL 33322 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Maria Marchegiani
1837 NW 111 Ave
Plantation, FL 33322

202-547-9429
J Miyagi
 , Portland, OR 97210 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
J Miyagi
Portland, OR 97210

202-547-9429
Joan Breiding
PO  Box 170625 , San Francisco, CA 94117 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joan Breiding
PO  Box 170625
San Francisco, CA 94117

202-547-9429
Anne Padilla
P.O. Box 1010 , Espanola, NM 87532 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anne Padilla
P.O. Box 1010
Espanola, NM 87532

202-547-9429
Dj Macfarlane
2813 Melissa Ct , Vista, CA 92083 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dj Macfarlane
2813 Melissa Ct
Vista, CA 92083

202-547-9429
Myriam Vauthey-Marano
30 Altura Way , Greenbrae, CA 94904 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Myriam Vauthey-Marano
30 Altura Way
Greenbrae, CA 94904

202-547-9429
Ilona Kopacz
P.O.B 678 , Palm Springs, CA 92263 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ilona Kopacz
P.O.B 678
Palm Springs, CA 92263

202-547-9429
Frank Szabo
645 Susquehanna Road , Ambler, PA 19002 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Frank Szabo
645 Susquehanna Road
Ambler, PA 19002

202-547-9429
carol maciejewski
6271 sturbridge ct. , sarasota, FL 34238 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
carol maciejewski
6271 sturbridge ct.
sarasota, FL 34238

202-547-9429
Becky Guthrie
2457 Grant Hill Rd. , Waterville, NY 13480 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Becky Guthrie
2457 Grant Hill Rd.
Waterville, NY 13480

202-547-9429
elvia diaz
918 stubblefield ln , baltimore, MD 21202 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
elvia diaz
918 stubblefield ln
baltimore, MD 21202

202-547-9429
Marilee Mendoza
131 Cooley LN , DE QUEEN, AR 71832 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Marilee Mendoza
131 Cooley LN
DE QUEEN, AR 71832

202-547-9429
Malcolm & Carol Faust
9742 Dillwood Rd , Oakdale, CA 95361 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops  WILL contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

We urge the USDA to DENY this AND ALL OTHER applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to INSTITUTE A BAN ON THIS PRACTICE ALTOGETHER!!!!!

Sincerely,
Malcolm %pa_first_name% Carol Faust
9742 Dillwood Rd
Oakdale, CA 95361

202-547-9429
Joyce Smykal
PO Box 137 , Ash Fork, AZ 86320 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joyce Smykal
PO Box 137
Ash Fork, AZ 86320

202-547-9429
Constance Kosuda
po box 308 , Mount holly, PA 8060 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Constance Kosuda
po box 308
Mount holly, PA 8060

202-547-9429
Larry Arritola
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March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Larry Arritola

202-547-9429
Jennifer Mays
1095 Rey Cir , Chico, CA 95926 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Mays
1095 Rey Cir
Chico, CA 95926

202-547-9429
Gelse Tkalec
314 Northwood Road , RIVERSIDE, IL 60546 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gelse Tkalec
314 Northwood Road
RIVERSIDE, IL 60546

202-547-9429
Kit Rebhun
29306 Hidden Oak Place , CaNYon Country, CA 91387 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kit Rebhun
29306 Hidden Oak Place
CaNYon Country, CA 91387

202-547-9429
Rita Eccles
815 E Maryland , Phoenix, AZ 85014 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Rita Eccles
815 E Maryland
Phoenix, AZ 85014

202-547-9429
Robin Peacock
5155 10th Ave. North , St. Petersburg, FL 33710 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Robin Peacock
5155 10th Ave. North
St. Petersburg, FL 33710

202-547-9429
Dale Barrows
1769 McGraw Marathon Road , Marathon, NY 13803 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dale Barrows
1769 McGraw Marathon Road
Marathon, NY 13803

202-547-9429
Gillian Austin
1111 Allison Drive , Rockville, MD 20851 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gillian Austin
1111 Allison Drive
Rockville, MD 20851

202-547-9429
Andres Mejides
25650 SW 197 Ave. , Homestead, FL 33031 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Andres Mejides
25650 SW 197 Ave.
Homestead, FL 33031

202-547-9429
David Kosh
120 Cabrini Blvd., #58 , New York, NY 10033 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
David Kosh
120 Cabrini Blvd., #58
New York, NY 10033

202-547-9429
Radha Vignola
2913 Crocker Ct , Aptos, CA 95003 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Radha Vignola
2913 Crocker Ct
Aptos, CA 95003

202-547-9429
Steve Goldsmith
124 anderson hill , enfield, NH 3748 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Steve Goldsmith
124 anderson hill
enfield, NH 3748

202-547-9429
Bradley A Harris
PO Box 11875 , Fort Smith, AR 72918 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Bradley A Harris
PO Box 11875
Fort Smith, AR 72918

202-547-9429
Ed Frease
603 Pleasant Plain Rd , Fairfield, IA 52556 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ed Frease
603 Pleasant Plain Rd
Fairfield, IA 52556

202-547-9429
Carol Yeh-Garner
3192 Corte Tradicion , CArlsbad, CA 92009 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Carol Yeh-Garner
3192 Corte Tradicion
CArlsbad, CA 92009

202-547-9429
Ardean Campbell
 , Manteca,  95336 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ardean Campbell
Manteca 95336

202-547-9429
Judith Detert-Moriarty
23 S. Atwood Ave. , Janesville, WI 53545 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Judith Detert-Moriarty
23 S. Atwood Ave.
Janesville, WI 53545

202-547-9429
Sage Holloway
337 WCR 50. , Fort Collins, CO 80521 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sage Holloway
337 WCR 50.
Fort Collins, CO 80521

202-547-9429
Isabel Feldman
191-12 Station Rd. #3 , Flushing, NY 11358 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Isabel Feldman
191-12 Station Rd. #3
Flushing, NY 11358

202-547-9429
David Sanor
34869 Golf Club Dr , Salem, OH 44460 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
David Sanor
34869 Golf Club Dr
Salem, OH 44460

202-547-9429
Phillip Rockey
547 Del Rio cir , Oakdale, CA 95361 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Phillip Rockey
547 Del Rio cir
Oakdale, CA 95361

202-547-9429
John Pauza
235 Peach Hollow Rd , Derry, PA 15627 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

I can't understand why we would even need this.  Money can't buy health, and money is what this is about.  History shows us that nature can do a much better job than we can.  What will it take for us to learn this?

Sincerely,
John Pauza
235 Peach Hollow Rd
Derry, PA 15627

202-547-9429
Kevin Kuehlwein
1531 S 13th St , Phila., PA 19147 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Please Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

I am very worried that pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

As a healthcare provider, I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kevin Kuehlwein
1531 S 13th St
Phila., PA 19147

202-547-9429
Darla Eaton
W 1001 18th Ave. , Spokane, WA 99203 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Darla Eaton
W 1001 18th Ave.
Spokane, WA 99203

202-547-9429
John Carapit
11 Patterson St Mt Albert, Auckland,   New Zealand

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

The risk to the US food industry and internayional reputation  is grave.

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
John Carapit
11 Patterson St
Mt Albert
Auckland

202-547-9429
Wendy Stout
406 marshall st , safety harbor, FL 34695 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Wendy Stout
406 marshall st
safety harbor, FL 34695

202-547-9429
Lisa Gerson
3312 Cardinal Ln. , Woodstock, IL 60098 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lisa Gerson
3312 Cardinal Ln.
Woodstock, IL 60098

202-547-9429
susan johnson
5921 concord ave. , edina, MN 55424 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
susan johnson
5921 concord ave.
edina, MN 55424

202-547-9429
Tracy Lopez
48 W. 59th Street Apt. D, Westmont, IL 60559 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tracy Lopez
48 W. 59th Street
Apt. D
Westmont, IL 60559

202-547-9429
Santha Cooke
68 Hibernia Road , Salt Point, NY 12578 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to effectively prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I STRONGLY urge the USDA to DENY this and ALL OTHER applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether. 

I am passing the word of this unsafe and irresponsible proposal throughout my network of friends and colleagues -- you will be hearing from many of them who wish to have their health protected by the Federal agency which is entrusted to do so -- I hope you will live up to my and their faith and trust by denying this proposal.

Sincerely,
Santha Cooke
68 Hibernia Road
Salt Point, NY 12578

202-547-9429
D. Hughes
143 Westwood Rd. , Columbus, OH 43214 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
D. Hughes
143 Westwood Rd.
Columbus, OH 43214

202-547-9429
Catherine Guidry
511 Rolling Mill Drive , Sugar Land, TX 77478 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Catherine Guidry
511 Rolling Mill Drive
Sugar Land, TX 77478

202-547-9429
Robert Handelsman
2643 Central Park , Evanston, IL 60201 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Robert Handelsman
2643 Central Park
Evanston, IL 60201

202-547-9429
Elizabeth Papagni
630 National Ave , Mountain View, CA 94043 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Papagni
630 National Ave
Mountain View, CA 94043

202-547-9429
Marilyn Rock
1939 gerritsen avenue , brooklyn, NY 11229 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Marilyn Rock
1939 gerritsen avenue
brooklyn, NY 11229

202-547-9429
Helen Lembeck
3270 Holly Way , Chula Vista, CA 919103217 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Helen Lembeck
3270 Holly Way
Chula Vista, CA 91910-3217

202-547-9429
Gina Denn
9M Research Rd. , Greenbelt, MD 20770 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gina Denn
9M Research Rd.
Greenbelt, MD 20770

202-547-9429
Thomas Windberg
2416 Pace Bend Rd S , Spicewood, TX 78669 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Thomas Windberg
2416 Pace Bend Rd S
Spicewood, TX 78669

202-547-9429
Gale Grossman,Ph.D
1500  Oak Avenue , Evanston, IL 60201 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gale Grossman,Ph.D
1500  Oak Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201

202-547-9429
Jerri Lafeber
4165 Stein Road , Ann Arbor, MI 48105 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jerri Lafeber
4165 Stein Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

202-547-9429
Mont Livermore
818 Lewis Gulch , Dayton, WA 99328 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mont Livermore
818 Lewis Gulch
Dayton, WA 99328

202-547-9429
Karen Hettig
1058 e. 1st. st. #215 , santa ana, CA 92701 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Karen Hettig
1058 e. 1st. st. #215
santa ana, CA 92701

202-547-9429
Jesse Wilson
818 Cowper 3, Palo Alto, CA 94301 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jesse Wilson
818 Cowper
3
Palo Alto, CA 94301

202-547-9429
Julie Machado
22248 Main Street , Hayward, CA 94541 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Julie Machado
22248 Main Street
Hayward, CA 94541

202-547-9429
Ken Jenkins
312 A Auburn St. , San Rafael, CA 94901 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ken Jenkins
312 A Auburn St.
San Rafael, CA 94901

202-547-9429
Mark Hirschfield
25 Alto Avenue , San Anselmo, CA 94960 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mark Hirschfield
25 Alto Avenue
San Anselmo, CA 94960

202-547-9429
Charon Mangino
38 Finley Hill Rd. , Marlborough, CT 06447 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Please stop messing with our food supply.  

Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Charon Mangino
38 Finley Hill Rd.
Marlborough, CT 06447

202-547-9429
Sarah Delaloye
2042 W. Caley Ave. , Littleton, CO 80120 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sarah Delaloye
2042 W. Caley Ave.
Littleton, CO 80120

202-547-9429
Chris Wrinn
56 Harborview Ave , Milford, CT 06460 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

NO! - IMMUNE COMPROMISED PEOPLE WILL BE AT HIGH RISK WHEN THIS CONTAMINATES OTHER FOOD SUPPLIES.

This is pure insanity!

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Chris Wrinn
56 Harborview Ave
Milford, CT 06460

202-547-9429
Mira Wonderwheel
9554 Valle Vista Rd. , Forestville, CA 95436 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mira Wonderwheel
9554 Valle Vista Rd.
Forestville, CA 95436

202-547-9429
Lynne Lapidus
10 Bunker Hill Place , Whippany, NJ 7981 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lynne Lapidus
10 Bunker Hill Place
Whippany, NJ 7981

202-547-9429
Elizabeth Norris
670 Church St. , Royersford, PA 19468 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Norris
670 Church St.
Royersford, PA 19468

202-547-9429
Diane Diggs
P.O. Box 445 , Paterson, NJ 07544 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Diane Diggs
P.O. Box 445
Paterson, NJ 07544

202-547-9429
Carolyn Butler
1301 28thSt #3 , San Diego, CA 92102 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Carolyn Butler
1301 28thSt #3
San Diego, CA 92102

202-547-9429
Kasey Kersnowski
4165 Faria Rd. , Ventura, CA 93001 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kasey Kersnowski
4165 Faria Rd.
Ventura, CA 93001

202-547-9429
Suzy Star
87948 Dowdy Ln. , Springfield, OR 97478 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Suzy Star
87948 Dowdy Ln.
Springfield, OR 97478

202-547-9429
Prof. Joe Cummins
738 wilkins street , london, ON N6C Canada

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Prof. Joe Cummins
738 wilkins street
london, ON N6C

202-547-9429
Zona Hays
1500 N Hedville Rd , Salina, KS 67401 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Zona Hays
1500 N Hedville Rd
Salina, KS 67401

202-547-9429
Lisa Walzem
1914 N. Vagedes Ave , Fresno, CA 93705 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lisa Walzem
1914 N. Vagedes Ave
Fresno, CA 93705

202-547-9429
Kathleen Zorn
970 Taylor Street , Eugene, OR 97402 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kathleen Zorn
970 Taylor Street
Eugene, OR 97402

202-547-9429
Tony Defalco
4703 SE Madison Street , Portland, OR 97215 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tony Defalco
4703 SE Madison Street
Portland, OR 97215

202-547-9429
Howard Redmond
po box 5624 , Sacramento, CA 95817 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Howard Redmond
po box 5624
Sacramento, CA 95817

202-547-9429
Pamela Anne Lowry
834 Neilson Street , Berkeley, CA 94707 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny VEntria Bioscience Application APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public, and the neighboring fields of corn, soybens, and wheat in the area proposed.

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Pamela Anne Lowry
834 Neilson Street
Berkeley, CA 94707

202-547-9429
Kathy Chechopoulos
755 Evans Rd , San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kathy Chechopoulos
755 Evans Rd
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

202-547-9429
Michelle Stephenson
423 Waller Street #1 , San Francisco, CA 941143460 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Michelle Stephenson
423 Waller Street #1
San Francisco, CA 94114-3460

202-547-9429
Sherry Sisson
9 Elm Ave , Westmont, NJ 8108 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sherry Sisson
9 Elm Ave
Westmont, NJ 8108

202-547-9429
Barbara Toynes
P O Box 91376 , Austin, TX 78709 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Barbara Toynes
P O Box 91376
Austin, TX 78709

202-547-9429
Whitney Falcon
3202 barnsley dr , austin, TX 78745 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Whitney Falcon
3202 barnsley dr
austin, TX 78745

202-547-9429
Lydia Schultz
3Rd Street , Santa Cruz, CA 95060 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lydia Schultz
3Rd Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

202-547-9429
jan Seavey
5 Ruffled Road , Henniker, NH 03242 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
jan Seavey
5 Ruffled Road
Henniker, NH 03242

202-547-9429
Kristin Reed
684 48th Ave, Apt 301 , San Francisco, CA 94121 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kristin Reed
684 48th Ave, Apt 301
San Francisco, CA 94121

202-547-9429
Christel Soper
10145 Wintergreen St , Coon Rapids, MN 55433 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Christel Soper
10145 Wintergreen St
Coon Rapids, MN 55433

202-547-9429
Susan Dorman
1512 NE Jade St , Lee's Summit, MO 64086 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Susan Dorman
1512 NE Jade St
Lee's Summit, MO 64086

202-547-9429
Susan Ellis
26329 W. Plata Lane , Calabasas, CA 91302 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Susan Ellis
26329 W. Plata Lane
Calabasas, CA 91302

202-547-9429
Michelle Flanders-Otey
22 London Ln , Endicott, NY 13760 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Michelle Flanders-Otey
22 London Ln
Endicott, NY 13760

202-547-9429
Stephen Yundt
P.O.Box 771 , Hopland, CA 95449 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Stephen Yundt
P.O.Box 771
Hopland, CA 95449

202-547-9429
Shelly Wolf
P.O. Box 204 , St. Helena, CA 94574 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Shelly Wolf
P.O. Box 204
St. Helena, CA 94574

202-547-9429
Sandra Cobb
3880 Ellendale Rd , Moreland Hills, OH 44022 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sandra Cobb
3880 Ellendale Rd
Moreland Hills, OH 44022

202-547-9429
Julieta Pisani Mccarthy
2020 Delaware St. #1 , Berkeley, CA 94709 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Julieta Pisani Mccarthy
2020 Delaware St. #1
Berkeley, CA 94709

202-547-9429
Jim Little
292 Av. de la Vereda , Ojai, CA 93023 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jim Little
292 Av. de la Vereda
Ojai, CA 93023

202-547-9429
John Farkash
198 High St. , Wallingford, CT 06492 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

Haven't we learned that you can't contain GMOs. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
John Farkash
198 High St.
Wallingford, CT 06492

202-547-9429
R Leo
8480  SW Connemara Pl , Beaverton, OR 97008 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
R Leo
8480  SW Connemara Pl
Beaverton, OR 97008

202-547-9429
Polly Stout
21649 CR 26 , Carey, OH 43316 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006 - no exceptions

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are very likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Polly Stout
21649 CR 26
Carey, OH 43316

202-547-9429
Shirley Rogers
2513 Fortson , Gulfport, MS 39503 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Shirley Rogers
2513 Fortson
Gulfport, MS 39503

202-547-9429
Jon Leslie
744 Elko Ave , Ventura, CA 93004 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jon Leslie
744 Elko Ave
Ventura, CA 93004

202-547-9429
Nancy Bender
6316 N. Hermitage Ave. , Chicago, IL 60660 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Keep our food supply safe! Please do not let them let this monster out by letting they grow this type of rice. Kill it before it is too late!

Sincerely,
Nancy Bender
6316 N. Hermitage Ave.
Chicago, IL 60660

202-547-9429
neil atler
21946 cricklewood terr , boca raton, FL 33428 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
neil atler
21946 cricklewood terr
boca raton, FL 33428

202-547-9429
Meredith Tucker
498 Inverway Road , Inverness, IL 60067 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Meredith Tucker
498 Inverway Road
Inverness, IL 60067

202-547-9429
Tracey Hammer
90 Main Street No. 7 , Westport, CT 6880 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tracey Hammer
90 Main Street No. 7
Westport, CT 6880

202-547-9429
Michelle Frey
2603 Camelback Lane #1 , Silver Spring, MD 20906 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

Please keep Americans safe by denying this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Michelle Frey
2603 Camelback Lane #1
Silver Spring, MD 20906

202-547-9429
Michele Miller
8112 Manderson Circle , Omaha, NE 68134 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

There are not sufficient guarantees that genetically engineered crops grown out of doors can be kept from contaminating other crops. Seeds borne by the wind or by animals will find their way into neighboring fields. Contamination of our food supply with genetically engineered seeds poses unknown risks to our health and to the integrity of the ecosystem. Please do not gamble with our future and the health of the planet. 

Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination. And I am not convinced that it is even possible to prevent contamination, no matter how rigorously we try to control the cultivation of GE crops. 

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Michele Miller
8112 Manderson Circle
Omaha, NE 68134

202-547-9429
Marilyn Farmer
5351 MILLSTONE DR , CATAWBA, NC 28609 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Marilyn Farmer
5351 MILLSTONE DR
CATAWBA, NC 28609

202-547-9429
David Burkhart
7735 Sunnyside Road SE , Salem, OR 97306 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
David Burkhart
7735 Sunnyside Road SE
Salem, OR 97306

202-547-9429
Leeann Taylor
1630 Spruce Ave , Chico, CA 95926 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Leeann Taylor
1630 Spruce Ave
Chico, CA 95926

202-547-9429
Judy Burlison
422 Ross Rd. , Red Bluff, CA 96080 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Judy Burlison
422 Ross Rd.
Red Bluff, CA 96080

202-547-9429
Judith L'Heureux
290 Drake Ave , New Rochelle, NY 10805 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Judith L'Heureux
290 Drake Ave
New Rochelle, NY 10805

202-547-9429
Linda Coonrod
8700 David Avenue , St. Louis, MO 63114 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Linda Coonrod
8700 David Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63114

202-547-9429
Christine Larson
1091 Woolman Dr. , Richmond, IN 47374 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Christine Larson
1091 Woolman Dr.
Richmond, IN 47374

202-547-9429
James Monaco
31 EAST 12TH ST , New York, NY 10003 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
James Monaco
31 EAST 12TH ST
New York, NY 10003

202-547-9429
Julia Pais
30304 Spring River Drive , Southfield, MI 48076 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Julia Pais
30304 Spring River Drive
Southfield, MI 48076

202-547-9429
Love Debberman
9 Orchard Hills Rd. , Ulster Park, NY 12487 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Love Debberman
9 Orchard Hills Rd.
Ulster Park, NY 12487

202-547-9429
Genevieve Goddard-Pritchett
3015 S. Logan Street , Englewood, CO 80113 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Genevieve Goddard-Pritchett
3015 S. Logan Street
Englewood, CO 80113

202-547-9429
rita krausova
1295 Alemany Blvd , San Francisco, CA 941121403 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
rita krausova
1295 Alemany Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94112-1403

202-547-9429
Frances Perlman
219 Main St , West Paris, ME 4289 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Frances Perlman
219 Main St
West Paris, ME 4289

202-547-9429
Jaime Ross
 , ,  94110 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jaime Ross
 94110

202-547-9429
Sally Houghton
PO Box 131 , Falmouth, MA 02541 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sally Houghton
PO Box 131
Falmouth, MA 02541

202-547-9429
Julie Amato
4251 Tujunga Ave #10 , Studio City, CA 91604 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

There is even evidence that the GE crops are killing off the HONEY BEE population!  That would be a MAJOR DISASTER.  Please stop the madness!  Do NOT allow these crops.  Thank you.

Sincerely,
Julie Amato
4251 Tujunga Ave #10
Studio City, CA 91604

202-547-9429
JJ Sweeney
2918 SE 43rd Ave. , Portland, OR 97206 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

How slow to learn are we humans?  We are a clever and creative species, but we have yet to learn that fundamentally altering Mother Nature ALWAYS creates unintended negative consequences...

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
JJ Sweeney
2918 SE 43rd Ave.
Portland, OR 97206

202-547-9429
Annie Wyndham
P.O. Box 94 , Burlington, VT 05402 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Annie Wyndham
P.O. Box 94
Burlington, VT 05402

202-547-9429
James Ferrara
1284 Balsam Dr , Decatur, GA 300332950 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
James Ferrara
1284 Balsam Dr
Decatur, GA 30033-2950

202-547-9429
branwen gregory
1766 las palmas LA, LA, CA 90028 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
branwen gregory
1766 las palmas
LA
LA, CA 90028

202-547-9429
Lisa Leahy
312 Rose Avenue , Yutan, NE 68073 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lisa Leahy
312 Rose Avenue
Yutan, NE 68073

202-547-9429
Tammi Brumfield
1025-B Mansfield St. , Nashville, TN 37206 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tammi Brumfield
1025-B Mansfield St.
Nashville, TN 37206

202-547-9429
Lily Swartz
7 Arden Way , New Hope, PA 18938 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lily Swartz
7 Arden Way
New Hope, PA 18938

202-547-9429
Susan Ventura
2405 Bodega Ave. , Petaluma, CA 94952 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Susan Ventura
2405 Bodega Ave.
Petaluma, CA 94952

202-547-9429
Jacqueline Horn
6286 Rosebelle Avenue , North Ridgeville, OH 44039 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jacqueline Horn
6286 Rosebelle Avenue
North Ridgeville, OH 44039

202-547-9429
Shawn Abtahi
16820 solana lane , caNYon country, CA 91351 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Shawn Abtahi
16820 solana lane
caNYon country, CA 91351

202-547-9429
Thomas Giblin
25 Jackson St , Binghamton, NY 13903 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Thomas Giblin
25 Jackson St
Binghamton, NY 13903

202-547-9429
Thomas Buford
4718 25th Road N , Arlington, VA 22207 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

STOP THE INTRODUCTION OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANT CROPS! THEY CAN NOT BE CONTAINED AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESULTS ARE UNKNOWN AND POTENTIALLY LETHAL - DOES AFRICAN HONEY BEE MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU!
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Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Thomas Buford
4718 25th Road N
Arlington, VA 22207

202-547-9429
Tia Chew
5003 Rainbows End , Culver City, CA 90230 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tia Chew
5003 Rainbows End
Culver City, CA 90230

202-547-9429
Luisa Garza
POB 5088 , chico, CA 95927 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

food should be food and drugs should be drugs. NEVER THE TWO SHALL MEET.
NO to Genetic engineering of rice with human DNA!!!

Sincerely,
Luisa Garza
POB 5088
chico, CA 95927

202-547-9429
Thelma Garvin
3200 Netherland Avenue , Bronx, New York, NY 10463 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Thelma Garvin
3200 Netherland Avenue
Bronx, New York, NY 10463

202-547-9429
Ted Fishman
790 Villa Teresa Way , San Jose, CA 95123 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ted Fishman
790 Villa Teresa Way
San Jose, CA 95123

202-547-9429
kathleen cullen
22010 marjorie Ave. , torrance, CA 90503 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
kathleen cullen
22010 marjorie Ave.
torrance, CA 90503

202-547-9429
Andrew Curtis
7 Park Ln. , Jamaica plain, MA 2130 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Please do not allow pharmaceutical or industrial food crops to contaminate our food supply. If these crops are grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas--seeds and pollen will be dispersed to neighboring fields. This contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Niether the companies who profit from this research nor the EPA has done an acceptable job of preventing this contamination in the past.

The rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Andrew Curtis
7 Park Ln.
Jamaica plain, MA 2130

202-547-9429
Kelley Wiley
PO Box 119 , West Falmouth, MA 02574 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kelley Wiley
PO Box 119
West Falmouth, MA 02574

202-547-9429
Aubrey Skye
3477 B,I,A, Rd, #7 , Selfridge, ND 58568 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Aubrey Skye
3477 B,I,A, Rd, #7
Selfridge, ND 58568

202-547-9429
Leanne Epina
125 mountain rest rd , new paltz, NY 12561 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Leanne Epina
125 mountain rest rd
new paltz, NY 12561

202-547-9429
Jabe Graham
503 Harvestwood Rd SE , Floyd, VA 24091 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jabe Graham
503 Harvestwood Rd SE
Floyd, VA 24091

202-547-9429
george marzocchi
64 overlook dr , bolinas, CA 94924 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
george marzocchi
64 overlook dr
bolinas, CA 94924

202-547-9429
kelly fernandez
147 inkerman st , campbellford, ON K0L1L0 Canada

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
kelly fernandez
147 inkerman st
campbellford, ON K0L1L0

202-547-9429
Franklin Eventoff
16120 Park Place , Bow, WA 98232 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Franklin Eventoff
16120 Park Place
Bow, WA 98232

202-547-9429
Maryann Middleton
120 Pullman Drive , Milford, CT 6460 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Maryann Middleton
120 Pullman Drive
Milford, CT 6460

202-547-9429
Marc Daniel
119 e lawrence st , Mt vernon, NY 98273 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Marc Daniel
119 e lawrence st
Mt vernon, NY 98273

202-547-9429
Leah Paterson
7086 Atwood Rd , Ferndale, WA 98248 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Leah Paterson
7086 Atwood Rd
Ferndale, WA 98248

202-547-9429
Dr. Mha Atma S Khalsa
1536 Crest Dr. , Los Angeles, CA 90035 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: PLEASE Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dr. Mha Atma S Khalsa
1536 Crest Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90035

202-547-9429
Katherine Witt
7065 Red Prairie Road , Sheridan, OR 97378 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Katherine Witt
7065 Red Prairie Road
Sheridan, OR 97378

202-547-9429
David J. Ledermann
353 Park Ave. , New Cumberland, PA 17070 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
David J. Ledermann
353 Park Ave.
New Cumberland, PA 17070

202-547-9429
Prema Michau
67 E. 2nd Street , New York, NY 10003 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Prema Michau
67 E. 2nd Street
New York, NY 10003

202-547-9429
Brenda Barnetson
10035 Sophia Avenue , North Hills, CA 91343 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Brenda Barnetson
10035 Sophia Avenue
North Hills, CA 91343

202-547-9429
Joseph Young
P.O.Box 4337 , Bellingham, WA 98227 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joseph Young
P.O.Box 4337
Bellingham, WA 98227

202-547-9429
dorothy Tristman
20 Irving Street , Albany, NY 12202 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
dorothy Tristman
20 Irving Street
Albany, NY 12202

202-547-9429
Cheri Dzubak
69 Elton Avenue , Yardville, NJ 08620 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Cheri Dzubak
69 Elton Avenue
Yardville, NJ 08620

202-547-9429
Chris Chan
Highland Ave , San Mateo, CA 94401 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Chris Chan
Highland Ave
San Mateo, CA 94401

202-547-9429
Mary Davis
Upper Lachine , Montreal, QC H4A3s1 Canada

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mary Davis
Upper Lachine
Montreal, QC H4A3s1

202-547-9429
Carole Epp
316 Lake Cres , Saskatoon, SK S7H 3A2 Canada

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Carole Epp
316 Lake Cres
Saskatoon, SK S7H 3A2

202-547-9429
Peter Mathews
3530 h Hudson pkyw , Riverdale, NY 10463 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Peter Mathews
3530 h Hudson pkyw
Riverdale, NY 10463

202-547-9429
Sandra Mardigian
260 Marion Avenue , Mill Valley, CA 94941 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sandra Mardigian
260 Marion Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941

202-547-9429
Steve Green
29008 Outlook , Sedro Woolley, WA 98284 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Steve Green
29008 Outlook
Sedro Woolley, WA 98284

202-547-9429
Connie Anderson
606 Magnolia Drive , San Mateo, CA 94402 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors,we have seen this happen already with corn--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. I certainly do not want to be eating this nor have my grandchildren exposed.

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Connie Anderson
606 Magnolia Drive
San Mateo, CA 94402

202-547-9429
Adam Mizicko
4575 La Madera Road , Sandia Park, NM 87047 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Honestly, grow all the GM crap you want, just do it responsibly indoors!  Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Adam Mizicko
4575 La Madera Road
Sandia Park, NM 87047

202-547-9429
Beth Lutz
825 wilshire , santa monica, CA 90401 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Beth Lutz
825 wilshire
santa monica, CA 90401

202-547-9429
Angela Anguiano
960 EDGECLIFFE DR , LOS ANGELES, CA 90026 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Angela Anguiano
960 EDGECLIFFE DR
LOS ANGELES, CA 90026

202-547-9429
Soleil Tranquilli
9012 Meadowsweet Way , Elk Grove, CA 95624 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Soleil Tranquilli
9012 Meadowsweet Way
Elk Grove, CA 95624

202-547-9429
Barbara Roth
1721 Gable Drive , Coopersburg, PA 18036 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Barbara Roth
1721 Gable Drive
Coopersburg, PA 18036

202-547-9429
Lisa Witzke
68 Howes Rd , Brewster, MA 02631 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lisa Witzke
68 Howes Rd
Brewster, MA 02631

202-547-9429
Anne Keys
3836 Lywiski Rd , Collegeville, PA 19426 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anne Keys
3836 Lywiski Rd
Collegeville, PA 19426

202-547-9429
Jane von Voros
2802 Rockingham Dr. , Austin, TX 78704 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jane von Voros
2802 Rockingham Dr.
Austin, TX 78704

202-547-9429
Irene Wrenner
15 Thrush Lane , Essex Jct., VT 05452 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Irene Wrenner
15 Thrush Lane
Essex Jct., VT 05452

202-547-9429
Iris E Price
1570 Wilson Road , Ramona, CA 92065 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Iris E Price
1570 Wilson Road
Ramona, CA 92065

202-547-9429
Carol Judge
10 Recado Road , Santa Fe, NM 87508 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Carol Judge
10 Recado Road
Santa Fe, NM 87508

202-547-9429
angela morgan
po box 1224 , havertown, PA 19083 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
angela morgan
po box 1224
havertown, PA 19083

202-547-9429
Mrs. Tricia Ptak
46160 Litchfield , Plymouth, MI 48170 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Tricia Ptak
46160 Litchfield
Plymouth, MI 48170

202-547-9429
Carol Berghen
533 28th Street , San Francisco, CA 94131 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Carol Berghen
533 28th Street
San Francisco, CA 94131

202-547-9429
Inge Barth
 , ,   

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Inge Barth

202-547-9429
Andrea Linton
940 Mt. View Avenue , Petaluma, CA 94952 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

As an avid gardener I know the impact of contamination of seeds.  Pollen drift can destroy the livelihood of farmers not interested in growing genetically modified grain.  Look at the record of what has already happen and halt this approval process.  Seed contamination cannot be taken back!

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Andrea Linton
940 Mt. View Avenue
Petaluma, CA 94952

202-547-9429
Anita Fordin-Giese
20450 N. 17th Drive , Phoenix, AZ 85027 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anita Fordin-Giese
20450 N. 17th Drive
Phoenix, AZ 85027

202-547-9429
Sheilah Hoelscher
98 Concord Avenue , Somerville, MA 02143 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sheilah Hoelscher
98 Concord Avenue
Somerville, MA 02143

202-547-9429
John Preston
1934 Santa Ana Ave , Costa Mesa, CA 92627 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
John Preston
1934 Santa Ana Ave
Costa Mesa, CA 92627

202-547-9429
Sue E. Dean
33945 N. 66th Way , Scottsdale, AZ 85262 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sue E. Dean
33945 N. 66th Way
Scottsdale, AZ 85262

202-547-9429
Melissa Clark
800 N. Washington St. , Bloomington, IN 47408 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

This argument is no different than the argument to ban DDT during the 60s.  You are playing God with chemicals and genetic engineering with some of the most powerful weapons based on the uncertain knowledge.  It is very likely that at some point we will have to go to heroic efforts to reverse what you have the authority to avoid!

The rice industry is already struggling from the very same problems of two contamination episodes.  You clearly understand the contamination problem, so you can't play the ignorance card!

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Melissa Clark
800 N. Washington St.
Bloomington, IN 47408

202-547-9429
Marla Serrine
354 Townhall Road , Metamora, IL 61548 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Marla Serrine
354 Townhall Road
Metamora, IL 61548

202-547-9429
Linda Sheehan
77 Kendall Drive , Ringwood, NJ 07456 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Linda Sheehan
77 Kendall Drive
Ringwood, NJ 07456

202-547-9429
Barbara Teichner
407 W.Quanah Pl. , Broken Arrow, OK 74011 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Barbara Teichner
407 W.Quanah Pl.
Broken Arrow, OK 74011

202-547-9429
Kirk Rhoads
301 Cooper St , Mountain Home, AR 72653 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kirk Rhoads
301 Cooper St
Mountain Home, AR 72653

202-547-9429
John Barfield
"1435 Druid Valley Dr,NE" Apt  B, Atlanta, GA 30329 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
John Barfield
"1435 Druid Valley Dr,NE"
Apt  B
Atlanta, GA 30329

202-547-9429
Jill "Howe-Vercos, M.A., MFT"
616 Victoria Avenue , Venice, CA 90291 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jill "Howe-Vercos, M.A., MFT"
616 Victoria Avenue
Venice, CA 90291

202-547-9429
Diana Kaye
11580 Rabbit Hash Road , Elizabeth, IN 47117 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Diana Kaye
11580 Rabbit Hash Road
Elizabeth, IN 47117

202-547-9429
Anna Connolly
51 Avondale Lawn Blackrock, Co.Dublin,  n/a Ireland

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anna Connolly
51 Avondale Lawn
Blackrock
Co.Dublin n/a

202-547-9429
Vivien Richards
3686 Glenwood St , Eureka, CA 95501-8402 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Vivien Richards
3686 Glenwood St
Eureka, CA 95501-8402

202-547-9429
Debbie Nickel
3175 La Paloma Ave. , Daytona Beach, FL 32118 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Debbie Nickel
3175 La Paloma Ave.
Daytona Beach, FL 32118

202-547-9429
linda hubback
P.O.Box 159 , Big Sur, CA 93920 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
linda hubback
P.O.Box 159
Big Sur, CA 93920

202-547-9429
Eileen Peterson
199  Edward , Bishop, CA 93514 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Eileen Peterson
199  Edward
Bishop, CA 93514

202-547-9429
Virginia Magnuson
4622 Douglas St , Omaha, NE 68132 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

WHAT are you thinking, or are you thinking at all? How can any of you, in good conscience, approve this action when you are well aware the GE rice hasn't even been approved by the FDA? What happened to being trustworthy to your consumers, so they feel secure in the knowledge that what they have bought in good faith isn't potentially harmful in a borderline-uncontrollable way? TAKE CARE of us--it is your responsibility! 

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public.
I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Virginia Magnuson
4622 Douglas St
Omaha, NE 68132

202-547-9429
Jacob Litoff
58 Union Street , Millis, MA 020541247 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jacob Litoff
58 Union Street
Millis, MA 02054-1247

202-547-9429
Stephen Hall
P.O. Box 739 12940 Anderson Valley Way, Boonville, CA 95415 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Stephen Hall
P.O. Box 739
12940 Anderson Valley Way
Boonville, CA 95415

202-547-9429
Karen Lind
200 Paterson Plank Road Apt.409, Union City, NJ 070872889 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Karen Lind
200 Paterson Plank Road
Apt.409
Union City, NJ 07087-2889

202-547-9429
Mikki St Germain
211 S. La Esperenza , San Clemente, CA 92672 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mikki St Germain
211 S. La Esperenza
San Clemente, CA 92672

202-547-9429
Denise Jindrich
9 Heuter Lane , Mill Valley, CA 94941 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Denise Jindrich
9 Heuter Lane
Mill Valley, CA 94941

202-547-9429
Lucy Loscocco
818 Corona , Port Townsend, WA 98368 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lucy Loscocco
818 Corona
Port Townsend, WA 98368

202-547-9429
Gabriella Van Leuven
600  Kresge Ct , Santa Cruz, CA 95064 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gabriella Van Leuven
600  Kresge Ct
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

202-547-9429
Jan Pfund
6744 Fredericks , Lambertville, MI 48144 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jan Pfund
6744 Fredericks
Lambertville, MI 48144

202-547-9429
Gene Hudnall
7001 Burton Dr , Little Rock, AR 72204 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

As an Arkansan, this is important to me. 

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that contamination cannot be prevented in the field.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gene Hudnall
7001 Burton Dr
Little Rock, AR 72204

202-547-9429
Erik Conklin
P.O. Box 131221 , Carlsbad, CA 92009 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Erik Conklin
P.O. Box 131221
Carlsbad, CA 92009

202-547-9429
Joyce Akins
200 Lancaster Avenue , Strasburg, PA 17579 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joyce Akins
200 Lancaster Avenue
Strasburg, PA 17579

202-547-9429
Ren Lackey
901 SR 92 N , Tunkhannock, PA 18657 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ren Lackey
901 SR 92 N
Tunkhannock, PA 18657

202-547-9429
Margo Duesterhaus
2814 Montclair Drive , Ellicott City, MD 21043 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Margo Duesterhaus
2814 Montclair Drive
Ellicott City, MD 21043

202-547-9429
Patricia Green
138  Pond Brook Rd , Huntington, MA 01050 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Patricia Green
138  Pond Brook Rd
Huntington, MA 01050

202-547-9429
Ann Cantrell
3106 Claremore Ave. , Long Beach, CA 90808 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Stop messing with our food!

Sincerely,
Ann Cantrell
3106 Claremore Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90808

202-547-9429
Diane Bray
8905 Club River Drive , Roswell, GA 30076 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Diane Bray
8905 Club River Drive
Roswell, GA 30076

202-547-9429
Pat Harcarik
2528 Guilford Avenue , Baltimore, MD 21218 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Pat Harcarik
2528 Guilford Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218

202-547-9429
John Goldthwait
21273 Entrada , Topanga, CA 90290 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
John Goldthwait
21273 Entrada
Topanga, CA 90290

202-547-9429
Raymond Martinez
2355 cove ave , Los angeles, CA 90039 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Raymond Martinez
2355 cove ave
Los angeles, CA 90039

202-547-9429
Bethany Hecht
340  Sierra Vista Dr , Aptos, CA 95003 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Bethany Hecht
340  Sierra Vista Dr
Aptos, CA 95003

202-547-9429
Clarity Hoffmann
3626 Lyon street oakland, california, CA 94601 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Clarity Hoffmann
3626 Lyon street
oakland
california, CA 94601

202-547-9429
Chakulla (Chuck) Smith
5796 Holiday Park Blvd , North Port, FL 34287 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Chakulla (Chuck) Smith
5796 Holiday Park Blvd
North Port, FL 34287

202-547-9429
Kathryn Mahoney
240 forest street , Winnetka, IL 60093 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kathryn Mahoney
240 forest street
Winnetka, IL 60093

202-547-9429
molly starnes
8120 joshua rd. , knoxville, TN 37938 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
molly starnes
8120 joshua rd.
knoxville, TN 37938

202-547-9429
Sandra Gray
po box 641 , kapaau, HI 96755 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sandra Gray
po box 641
kapaau, HI 96755

202-547-9429
Liz Eckstein
1829 Monroe St NW , Washington, DC 20010 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Liz Eckstein
1829 Monroe St NW
Washington, DC 20010

202-547-9429
Marlene LaVonne
myrtle , San Diego, CA 92103 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Marlene LaVonne
myrtle
San Diego, CA 92103

202-547-9429
Roberta Rohn
2617 Spohrs Rd. , Berkeley Springs, WV 25411 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Roberta Rohn
2617 Spohrs Rd.
Berkeley Springs, WV 25411

202-547-9429
Russell Engebretson
810 Smalley Drive , Norman, OK 73071 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I strongly urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Russell Engebretson
810 Smalley Drive
Norman, OK 73071

202-547-9429
Lynell Hage
2838 Oxford St N , Roseville, MN 55113 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

NO NO NO to GMO food PERIOD!  I am not a science experiment for some money hungary corporation.

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lynell Hage
2838 Oxford St N
Roseville, MN 55113

202-547-9429
Ethlynn Dewitt
3322 Virginia , Kalamazoo, MI 49004 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Ethlynn Dewitt
3322 Virginia
Kalamazoo, MI 49004

202-547-9429
Laura Sussman-Randall
5227 Richmond Rd , Charlotte, NC 28227 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Laura Sussman-Randall
5227 Richmond Rd
Charlotte, NC 28227

202-547-9429
Katarina Bergh
92 Bay State Ave. , Somerville, MA 02144 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Katarina Bergh
92 Bay State Ave.
Somerville, MA 02144

202-547-9429
Karen Malley
1609 S. Gary St. , Anaheim, CA 92804 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Karen Malley
1609 S. Gary St.
Anaheim, CA 92804

202-547-9429
ted hood
9470 jupiter dr , St.cloud, FL 34773 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
ted hood
9470 jupiter dr
St.cloud, FL 34773

202-547-9429
Melissa Sage
1126 Cordova Street , Pasadena, CA 91106 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Melissa Sage
1126 Cordova Street
Pasadena, CA 91106

202-547-9429
Mary Bonnarens
2039  N Geyer Rd , Saint Louis, MO 63131 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mary Bonnarens
2039  N Geyer Rd
Saint Louis, MO 63131

202-547-9429
Tina Horowitz
4701 pine street m8 , Philadelphia, PA 19143 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tina Horowitz
4701 pine street m8
Philadelphia, PA 19143

202-547-9429
Karissa Campbell
25 Louis Lane , Plainfield, CT 06374 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Karissa Campbell
25 Louis Lane
Plainfield, CT 06374

202-547-9429
Derek Brett
1407 S. Osceola Avenue , Orlando, FL 32806 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Derek Brett
1407 S. Osceola Avenue
Orlando, FL 32806

202-547-9429
Toni Delisi
30 Dean Road  #D-3 , Brookline, MA 2445 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Toni Delisi
30 Dean Road  #D-3
Brookline, MA 2445

202-547-9429
Carolyn Poinelli
36  Prince  St.  #12 , Boston, MA 02113 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Carolyn Poinelli
36  Prince  St.  #12
Boston, MA 02113

202-547-9429
Marcy Powers
110 Willow Way , Lady Lake, FL 32159 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Marcy Powers
110 Willow Way
Lady Lake, FL 32159

202-547-9429
Denise Morningstar
1019 S Division St , Whitehall, MI 49461 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Denise Morningstar
1019 S Division St
Whitehall, MI 49461

202-547-9429
Natalie Batovsky
118 South Main Street , Union Bridge, MD 21791 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Natalie Batovsky
118 South Main Street
Union Bridge, MD 21791

202-547-9429
France Benoit
Box 1841 , Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P4 Canada

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
France Benoit
Box 1841
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P4

202-547-9429
Nina Torcoletti
1370Delaware Street , Berkeley, CA 94702 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Nina Torcoletti
1370Delaware Street
Berkeley, CA 94702

202-547-9429
Professor Diba Khan-Bureau
40 Hill Top Trail , Salem, CT 06420 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Professor Diba Khan-Bureau
40 Hill Top Trail
Salem, CT 06420

202-547-9429
mary jo jonkoski
9748 hickory ct , hesperia, CA 92345 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
mary jo jonkoski
9748 hickory ct
hesperia, CA 92345

202-547-9429
Jeannine Coleman
201 Ginger Lane , Easley, SC 29642 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Are you people OUT OF YOUR MINDS???

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jeannine Coleman
201 Ginger Lane
Easley, SC 29642

202-547-9429
Willa Schmidt
2020 University Ave. , Madison, WI 53726 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Willa Schmidt
2020 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53726

202-547-9429
Martin Kreckel
15 Berry Dr. , Westerly, RI 02891 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Martin Kreckel
15 Berry Dr.
Westerly, RI 02891

202-547-9429
Tracy Wilson
20 Princeton Ave , Waltham, MA 2451 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tracy Wilson
20 Princeton Ave
Waltham, MA 2451

202-547-9429
Fred Schneider
#37-425 Meadows Blvd. , Mississauga, ON L4Z 1N3 Canada

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Fred Schneider
#37-425 Meadows Blvd.
Mississauga, ON L4Z 1N3

202-547-9429
Greg Difiore
119 Pawnee Avenue , Manitou springs, CO 80829 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Greg Difiore
119 Pawnee Avenue
Manitou springs, CO 80829

202-547-9429
Adele Kushner
319 Wynn Lake Circle , Alto, GA 30510 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Please don't mess with my rice! Kansas winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Not only human health is at stake.  Farmers could be held liable for contamination and have been in the recent past. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. If you care about the public's health, you will not approve this application.

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Adele Kushner
319 Wynn Lake Circle
Alto, GA 30510

202-547-9429
Cynthia Hodges
4901 Valerie , Bellaire, TX 77401 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: No to APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Dear USDA, 

I believe the 9th Circuit recently ruled that your approval of GM crops 12 years ago was in violation of NEPA for failing to do an EIS as required. Have you done an EIS for this rice, or are you simply going to approve it, and then let the courts rule against you once it is already too late? This GM-crop business is really insane. You are risking the health of the entire planet's food supply. 

I strongly oppose any GM crops, in fact, I support a ban on all GM crops.

Sincerely,
Cynthia Hodges
4901 Valerie
Bellaire, TX 77401

202-547-9429
Mike Shay
2000 N. Court ST 4D , Fairfield, IA 52556 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Mike Shay
2000 N. Court ST 4D
Fairfield, IA 52556

202-547-9429
Douglas Curtis
3155 w. cheryl , phoenix, AZ 85051 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Douglas Curtis
3155 w. cheryl
phoenix, AZ 85051

202-547-9429
Roberta Fognani
9595 N Pecos #62 , Thornton, CO 80260 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Roberta Fognani
9595 N Pecos #62
Thornton, CO 80260

202-547-9429
Rita Reis
8770 Crucero Dr. , Elk Grove, CA 95624 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Rita Reis
8770 Crucero Dr.
Elk Grove, CA 95624

202-547-9429
Tim & Andria Sigler-Smalz
33927 Wagon Train Drive , Wildomar, CA 92595 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Tim %pa_first_name% Andria Sigler-Smalz
33927 Wagon Train Drive
Wildomar, CA 92595

202-547-9429
Vanessa Simshauser
1042 Cascade Ln , Camano Island, WA 98282 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Vanessa Simshauser
1042 Cascade Ln
Camano Island, WA 98282

202-547-9429
Vanessa Favero
364 West 18th Street, #3L , New York, NY 10011 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Vanessa Favero
364 West 18th Street, #3L
New York, NY 10011

202-547-9429
Carol Manning
4 Kenneth Avenue , Kendall Park, NJ 08824 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Carol Manning
4 Kenneth Avenue
Kendall Park, NJ 08824

202-547-9429
John "Glass, Ph.D."
4145 northaven rd , Dallas, TX 75229 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
John "Glass, Ph.D."
4145 northaven rd
Dallas, TX 75229

202-547-9429
Charlene Bender
19018 40th Place NE , LakeForestPark, WA 98155 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Charlene Bender
19018 40th Place NE
LakeForestPark, WA 98155

202-547-9429
Robert "Lang, MD"
11 Island Bay Circle , Guilford, CT 6437 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Robert "Lang, MD"
11 Island Bay Circle
Guilford, CT 6437

202-547-9429
Turkin Evgeniy
1 , Moscow, KY 127474 Russian Federation

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Turkin Evgeniy
1
Moscow, KY 127474

202-547-9429
Christine Manning
33 Clarendon Ave , Brockton, MA 02301 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Christine Manning
33 Clarendon Ave
Brockton, MA 02301

202-547-9429
Connie Earnshaw
6026 N. Villard , Portland, OR 97217 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Connie Earnshaw
6026 N. Villard
Portland, OR 97217

202-547-9429
Cathy Popp-Mckenna
1452 Foote Hollow Rd. , Stamford, NY 12167 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Cathy Popp-Mckenna
1452 Foote Hollow Rd.
Stamford, NY 12167

202-547-9429
ed mcdade
2581 s. mountain , port matilda, PA 16870 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
ed mcdade
2581 s. mountain
port matilda, PA 16870

202-547-9429
Claudia Murphy
123 Lockner Rd , Telford, TN 37690 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.
 No one has the right to pollute this earth--leave Mother Nature alone.

Sincerely,
Claudia Murphy
123 Lockner Rd
Telford, TN 37690

202-547-9429
Georgia Mrazkova
3726 15th ave south #1 , Minneapolis, MN 55407 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Georgia Mrazkova
3726 15th ave south #1
Minneapolis, MN 55407

202-547-9429
Irene Dzioba
PO Box 366 , Amherst, MA 01004 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Irene Dzioba
PO Box 366
Amherst, MA 01004

202-547-9429
Novella Maia
540 East 100 North Apt. 202, Moab, UT 84532 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

There is far too much at risk. What does it take for you to understand this? Enough damage has already been done.

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Novella Maia
540 East 100 North
Apt. 202
Moab, UT 84532

202-547-9429
Beth Griffith
610 W. 142th  1D , New York City, NY 10031 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Beth Griffith
610 W. 142th  1D
New York City, NY 10031

202-547-9429
David Edwards
291 Limerick Ave , Eugene, OR 97404 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
David Edwards
291 Limerick Ave
Eugene, OR 97404

202-547-9429
Susan Burgenbauch
777 Middlefield Rd., #111 , Mt. View, CA 94043 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Please maintain the high standards of purity for our grain crops.

Sincerely,
Susan Burgenbauch
777 Middlefield Rd., #111
Mt. View, CA 94043

202-547-9429
Joshua Cox
790 Saratoga Ave. R102, San Jose, CA 95129 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joshua Cox
790 Saratoga Ave.
R102
San Jose, CA 95129

202-547-9429
Sybil Schlesinger
22 Rockland Street , Natick, MA 1760 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sybil Schlesinger
22 Rockland Street
Natick, MA 1760

202-547-9429
Stephen Greenberg
2431 3rd Street , Santa Monica, CA 90405 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Stephen Greenberg
2431 3rd Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405

202-547-9429
Jane Michael
1655 Lakeshore Drive , Menasha, WI 54952 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jane Michael
1655 Lakeshore Drive
Menasha, WI 54952

202-547-9429
Valerie Beranek
1628 Via Arriba , Palos Verdes Es, CA 90274 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Valerie Beranek
1628 Via Arriba
Palos Verdes Es, CA 90274

202-547-9429
Eric Lazarus
655 N. Oakland Ave. Apt. #2, Pasadena, CA 91101 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Eric Lazarus
655 N. Oakland Ave.
Apt. #2
Pasadena, CA 91101

202-547-9429
Edward Wawrzyniak
526 N West Ave , Elmhurst, IL 60126 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Edward Wawrzyniak
526 N West Ave
Elmhurst, IL 60126

202-547-9429
Kate Sky
PO Box 1699 , Gualala, CA 954451699 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Kate Sky
PO Box 1699
Gualala, CA 95445-1699

202-547-9429
Larry Rutledge
109 Elmwood Ave , Syracuse, NY 13207 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Larry Rutledge
109 Elmwood Ave
Syracuse, NY 13207

202-547-9429
Cheri Pann
1116 Palms Blvd , Venice, CA 902913525 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Cheri Pann
1116 Palms Blvd
Venice, CA 90291-3525

202-547-9429
Linda Banning
9205 NE 143rd PL , Bothell, WA 98011 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Linda Banning
9205 NE 143rd PL
Bothell, WA 98011

202-547-9429
Donald Judd
311 Webster , Pittsburg, KS 66762 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Donald Judd
311 Webster
Pittsburg, KS 66762

202-547-9429
Sherry Casertano
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March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Sherry Casertano

202-547-9429
Kathy Van Dame
1148 E 6600 S , SLC, UT 84121 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Not only do pharmaceutical food crops present the risk of contaminating the food supply if grown outdoors, but also there are recent concerns that the unexplained problems with bee populations are related to genetically engineered crops.

Because of the risk of contaminating the food supply and injuring critical bee populations I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical food crops until open air growing of GE crops can be proven safe. 

Sincerely,
Kathy Van Dame
1148 E 6600 S
SLC, UT 84121

202-547-9429
Dianna Oles
5131 S. Dorchester Ave. , Chicago, IL 60615 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dianna Oles
5131 S. Dorchester Ave.
Chicago, IL 60615

202-547-9429
Virginia Pepper
4 rosewood dr , ipswich, MA 01938 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Virginia Pepper
4 rosewood dr
ipswich, MA 01938

202-547-9429
Nancy Ashley
220 W. 83rd St. , NY, NY 10024 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Nancy Ashley
220 W. 83rd St.
NY, NY 10024

202-547-9429
V Hosono
1928 deerwood ave , Louisville, KY 40205 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
V Hosono
1928 deerwood ave
Louisville, KY 40205

202-547-9429
Joan Green
241 Perkins Street, #J601 , Boston, MA 02130 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Joan Green
241 Perkins Street, #J601
Boston, MA 02130

202-547-9429
Gillian Dale
2856 Emporia St. , Denver, CO 80238 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Gillian Dale
2856 Emporia St.
Denver, CO 80238

202-547-9429
Vincent M. B. Silenzio
17 Beckwith Terrace , Rochester, NY 14610 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Vincent M. B. Silenzio
17 Beckwith Terrace
Rochester, NY 14610

202-547-9429
Anne chips
18910 canyon hill drive , trabuco canyon, CA 92679-1069 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anne chips
18910 canyon hill drive
trabuco canyon, CA 92679-1069

202-547-9429
Dominique Pistochini
827 Valvista Way , Auburn, CA 95603 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Dominique Pistochini
827 Valvista Way
Auburn, CA 95603

202-547-9429
David Muething
3103 W. Waverly Ave. , Tampa, FL 33629 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
David Muething
3103 W. Waverly Ave.
Tampa, FL 33629

202-547-9429
George Droubie
6124 9TH ST NO , OAKDALE, MN 55128 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
George Droubie
6124 9TH ST NO
OAKDALE, MN 55128

202-547-9429
Julie Possick
280 Weatherstone Pointe Dr , Woodstock, GA 30188 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Julie Possick
280 Weatherstone Pointe Dr
Woodstock, GA 30188

202-547-9429
Willis Hall
hc 65 box 37 , Victor, WV 25938 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Willis Hall
hc 65 box 37
Victor, WV 25938

202-547-9429
Michael Filipiak
1843 W Edgerton Ave , Milwaukee, WI 53221-3519 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Michael Filipiak
1843 W Edgerton Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53221-3519

202-547-9429
Anthony Huljev
7407 W. Manchester Ave. #7 , Los Angeles, CA 900452372 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Anthony Huljev
7407 W. Manchester Ave. #7
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2372

202-547-9429
Rebeca Torres
221 10th St , Troy, NY 12180 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Rebeca Torres
221 10th St
Troy, NY 12180

202-547-9429
Jim Melloh
171  W  Shore  RD. , Auburn, ME 04210 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Jim Melloh
171  W  Shore  RD.
Auburn, ME 04210

202-547-9429
Norman Andersen
636 Sierra Point Rd , Brisbane, CA 94005 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Norman Andersen
636 Sierra Point Rd
Brisbane, CA 94005

202-547-9429
Yvonne Zarnowski
506-230 Roslyn Rd , Winnipeg, MB R3L 0H1 Canada

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Yvonne Zarnowski
506-230 Roslyn Rd
Winnipeg, MB R3L 0H1

202-547-9429
Brenda Falkowski
3436 Braeburn Circle , Ann Arbor, MI 481082609 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Brenda Falkowski
3436 Braeburn Circle
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2609

202-547-9429
Lee Johnson
5921 Concord Ave , Edina, MN 55424 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Lee Johnson
5921 Concord Ave
Edina, MN 55424

202-547-9429
Michelle Goldsmith
124 anderson hill , Enfield, NH 03748 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Michelle Goldsmith
124 anderson hill
Enfield, NH 03748

202-547-9429
jenny johnson
1252 hawthorne street , Alameda, CA 94501 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
jenny johnson
1252 hawthorne street
Alameda, CA 94501

202-547-9429
heather whitehead
2921 chapman st , oakland, CA 94601 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
heather whitehead
2921 chapman st
oakland, CA 94601

202-547-9429
Monica Skye
3477 BIA Rd 7 , Selfridge, ND 58568 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Monica Skye
3477 BIA Rd 7
Selfridge, ND 58568

202-547-9429
Eleanor Maclellan
104 Cushing St. , Cambridge, MA 02138 

March 26, 2007   6:39 PM

USDA Docket #APHIS-2007-0006

Subject: Deny APHIS-2007-0006

Docket No. APHIS-2007-0006 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238

I am writing to urge the USDA to deny the application by Ventria Bioscience to grow up to 3,200 acres of genetically engineered, pharmaceutical rice in Kansas (Docket #APHIS-2007-0006).

Pharmaceutical and industrial food crops are likely to contaminate the food supply if grown outdoors--especially in tornado-prone Kansas, where winds could easily blow pharma rice seeds into neighboring fields of corn, soybeans, or wheat. Contamination poses potentially serious risks to human health and threatens farmers who may be held liable for contamination. Experience shows that neither the USDA nor biotechnology companies can be trusted to prevent contamination.

Already the rice industry is reeling from two recent contamination episodes. Approving this experimental rice will only further threaten the fragile US rice market, and endanger the health of the public. 

I urge the USDA to deny this and all other applications for outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial food crops and to institute a ban on this practice altogether.

Sincerely,
Eleanor Maclellan
104 Cushing St.
Cambridge, MA 02138