"Plant-made pharmaceuticals" (PMPs) are made by GE to make specific compounds, generally proteins, which are extracted and purified after harvest (Bio-pharming).
What crops are considered being used for PMP?
"The most common PMP crops that have been grown in
Risks
The Bio-tech and pharmaceutical industries are now making Pharmaceutical crops. That's where there's a growing acknowledgment of a lot of economic prospective of using plants as platforms for drugs and therapeutic compounds.
Pharmaceutical and bio-tech corporations look at bio-pharming as a less expensive way to make large quantities of pharmaceutical chemicals and other powerful, biologically active substances. Corporations don't really reveal the types of chemicals that are being developed. They classify that information as "confidential business information"
- Contraceptives
- Potent growth hormones
