Based on the experts' findings, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to immediately ban the field production of corn, soybeans, and other food crops engineered to produce pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals.</p><p><a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release.cfm?newsID=444">UCS News</a></p><p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1216-08.htm">Common Dreams News Centre</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/biotechnology/page.cfm?pageID=1561">The full report of UCS</a>