From: stefan stoss [jstoss99@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 4:41 PM
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Subject: Fwd: tryptophan summary (fwd)

--- stefan johannes stoss <jstos@angelfire.com> wrote:
> To: jstoss99@yahoo.com
> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:42:12 -0500
> From: "stefan johannes stoss" <jstos@angelfire.com>
> Reply-to: jstos@angelfire.com
> Subject: Fwd: tryptophan summary (fwd)
> Organization: Angelfire 
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> --------- Forwarded Message ---------
> 
> DATE: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:40:41
> From: Stefan Stoss <jstos@vcn.bc.ca>
> To: jstos@angelfire.com
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 15:51:20 -0400
> From: Richard Wolfson <rwolfson@concentric.net>
> To: info@natural-law.ca, GENTECH@ping.de
> Subject: tryptophan summary
> 
> Here is an excellent summary, prepared by Dr. John
> Fagan, of the toxic
> tryptophan incident in 1989, when 37 North Americans
> died, and at least
> 1500 were permanently disabled after ingesting
> genetically engineered
> tryptophan.
> ...................................
> 
> TRYPTOPHAN SUMMARY
> NOVEMBER 1997
> JOHN B. FAGAN, PH.D.
> 
> Food supplements, such as amino acids, are often
> manufactured by
> fermentative processes, in which large quantities of
> bacteria are grown in
> vats, and the food supplement is extracted from the
> bacteria and purified.
> One amino acid, tryptophan has been produced in this
> way for many years. In
> the late 1980's the company Showa Denko K.K. decided
> to use genetic
> engineering to accelerate and increase the
> efficiency of tryptophan
> production. They genetically engineered bacteria by
> inserting several genes
> that caused the bacteria to express certain enzymes
> at much higher levels
> than normal and to express other enzymes that are
> not normally present in
> the original bacteria.
> 
> 

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