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31.(續)琳達 ‧費雪( Linda J.
Fisher)......前美國環境保護管理局的防制污染、殺蟲劑、有毒物質辦公室的行政助理，如今是孟山都公司的政府及公共事務副總裁。
L.費格鼎斯(L. Val
Giddings)......前美國農業部(USDA/APHIS)的生物科技管理員，兼(生化安全)的磋商員，現為「生物科技工業組織」
(BIO)的食品與農業的副總裁。
瑪莎‧賀爾(Marcia Hale)
......前美國總統助理，兼政府部門事務主管，現為孟山都公司的國際政府事務的主任。
麥可(米奇)‧坎特(Michael [Mickey]
Kantor).....前美國商務部長，兼美國商業代表，現為孟山都公司董事會的會員。
約書‧京(Josh King)......前白宮典禮製作主管，現為孟山都公司華盛頓首府辦公室的全球通訊主任。
泰瑞‧麥德理(Terry
Medley)......前美國農業部、動植物健康監察服務處(APHIS)的行政人員，前美國農業部、生物科技審議會主席兼副主席，前美國食品藥物管理局(FDA)食物顧問會會員，現為隸屬「杜邦公司」的農物企業的法規及外事主任。
瑪格莉特‧米勒 （Margaret
Miller)......前孟山都公司的化學實驗室監察，現為美國食品藥物管理局、獸醫醫藥中心、新動物藥品評估辦公室、人類食品安全與咨詢服務副主任。
威廉‧瑞寇沙斯(William D.
Ruckelshaus)......前美國環境保護管理局(USEPA)行政主管，現(以及過去十二年來)為孟山都公司董事會員。
麥可‧泰勒(Michael
Taylor)...前美國食品藥物管理局(FDA)、醫療用品處與食品處的法律顧問，後為美國食品藥物管理局局長的執行助理，後為「金與斯柏鼎」法律公司和夥人，監督一九位律師的小組，其客戶包括孟山都農產公司，其後為美國食品藥物管理局副政策局長，現又為「金與斯柏鼎」法律公司的成員。
莉蒂雅‧華楚( Lidia Watrud)
...前孟山都公司在密蘇里州、聖路易市的微生物生物科技研究者，現為美國環境保護管理局、環境效應實驗室、西部生態組的成員。
克雷頓 ‧宇特( Clayton K. Yeutter)...前美國農業部秘書，前美國商業代表(帶領美國團隊參加美國加拿大自由賀易協訂，並協助開展「關稅貿易總協訂」(GATT)
烏拉圭回合的磋商會議) 現為Mycogen公司董事會的會員。其公司的大股東為「道」化學公司The Dow
Chemical Company所全權擁有的Dow Agro Sciences。
此類的問題並不局限於美國：
環保人士昨日表示，政府在基因工程改造農作物方面的顧問，應該被革職，因為其中過半數與生物工業關係密切。
「地球之友」(FoE) 昨天公佈，「對環境發放顧問委員會」(ACRE)
十三位成員中，八位與進行農作物試驗，或其他基因工程研究的公司或組織掛鉤。ACRE的成員，是政府有關批准在鄉間種植基因改造作物法令的顧問，目前已經通過一百五十多的申請案，而沒有拒絕任何一個申請案。雖然會員在涉及個人利益的申請案中不投票，「地球之友」的食品倡導人士(campaigner)艾卓恩‧貝柏(Adrian
Bebb)指稱這個過程本身不健全。「當這麼多的成員，與生物工業有密切的金錢利益時，人怎麼會對政府的顧問委員會有信心？」(一九九八年七月八日，倫敦《獨立報》
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31. (Continued) Linda J. Fisher... former Assistant
Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency's Office of Pollution Prevention, Pesticides, and
Toxic Substances, now Vice President of Govemrrent and
Public Affairs for Monsanto Corporation.
L. Val Giddings... former biotechnology
regulator and (biosafety) negotiator at the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA/APHIS), now Vice President
for Food & Agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry
Organization (BIO).
Marcia Hale... former assistant to the
President of the United States and director for
intergovernmental affairs, now Director of International
Government Affairs for Monsanto Corporation.
Michael (Mickey) Kantor... former
Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and
former Trade Representative of the United States, now member
of the board of directors of Monsanto Corporation.
Josh King... former director of
production for White House events, now director of global
communication in the Washington, D.C office of Monsanto
Corporation.
Terry Medley... former administrator of
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of
the United States Department of Agriculture, former chair
and vice-chair of the United States Department of
Agriculture Biotechnology Council, former member of the US.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food advisory committee,
and now Director of Regulatory and External Affairs of
Dupont Corporation's Agricultural Enterprise.
Margaret Miller... former chemical
laboratory supervisor for Monsanto, now Deputy Director of
Human Food Safety and Consultative Services, New Animal Drug
Evaluation Office, Center for Veterinary Medicine in the
United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
William D. Ruckelshaus... former chief
administrator of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency (USEPA), now (and for the past 12 years) a member of
the board of directors of Monsanto Corporation.
Michael Taylor... former legal advisor to
the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s
Bureau of Medical Devices and Bureau of Foods, later
executive assistant to the Commissioner of the FDA, still
later a partner at the law firm of King & Spaulding where he
supervised a nine-lawyer group whose clients included
Monsanto Agricultural Company, still later Deputy
Commissioner for Policy at the United States Food and Drug
Administration, and now again with the law firm of King &
Spaulding.
Lidia Watrud... former microbial
biotechnology researcher at Monsanto Corporation in St.
Louis, Missouri, now with the United States Environmental
Protection Agency Environmental Effects Laboratory, Western
Ecology Division.
Gayton K. Yeutter... former Secretary of
the US. Department of Agriculture, former US. Trade
Representative (who led the US. team in negotiating the U.S.
Canada Free Trade Agreement and helped launch the Uruguay
Round of the GAIT negotiations), now a member of the board
of directors of Mycogen Corporation, whose majority owner is
Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow
Chemical Company.
Such problems are by no means restricted
to the United States: The government's advisers on
genetically engineered crops should be sacked because too
many have close links to the biotech industry,
environmentalists said yesterday.
Friends of the Earth (FoE) said that 8 of
the 13-strong Advisory Committee on Releases to the
Environment (ACRE) have ties with companies or organisations
involved in carrying out crop trials or other genetic
engineering research. Members of ACRE are the Government's
statutory advisers on allowing genetically modified crops to
be planted in the countryside. They have so far passed more
than 150 applications without any refusals. Although panel
members do not vote on any application in which they have a
personal interest, Adrian Bebb, FoE's food campaigner, said
the process was flawed. "How can people have confidence in
the government advisory panel when so many members have
close financial links to the biotech industry?" (London
INDEPENDENT July 8, 1998)
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