The case is In re: Genetically Modified Rice Litigation, case number 4:06-md-1811, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

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Now four local companies, including one with links to Monsanto, have filed applications to permit the sale of their versions of genetically modified rice, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

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Three of them, in a paper last December for the International Food Policy Research Institute, looked specifically at the prospects for genetically modified rice in India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Bangladesh.

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Bayer and its corporate predecessors stand accused of developing and testing a genetically modified strain of rice that contaminated the U.S. commercial rice supply, leading rice companies around the world to restrict U.S. rice imports and rice prices to drop.

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