OTHER NEWS - May 6, 1992
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Federal Suit Over Cow Drug Is Dismissed: A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that anti-biotechnology activist Jeremy Rifkin and 14 farmers lacked jurisdiction to bring suit against the U.S Department of Agriculture and the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. The suit contended that the agency and the board were unlawfully promoting bovine somatotropin, a synthetic hormone--that has not been approved--designed to increase cows’ milk production.
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