Biotechnology - Agraquest, Pam Marrone, Marrone Organic Innovations and Workers Comp

Biotechnology - Agraquest, Pam Marrone, Marrone Organic Innovations and Workers Compensation
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In Northern California, in the town of Davis a now former Monsanto employee set up three biotechnology companies. The first company went out of business shortly after it's creator left. Some employees from the second firm, Agraquest, became seriously ill. The Agraquest company went out of its way to prevent the very ill people from receiving adequate medical care, provide for time lost from work and in general did everything possible to mislead theCalifornia Workers Compensation system.

Was it because they were luring high powered, well connected investors and could not chance any negative publicity?

Were the people that participated in what appears to be a genuine coverup also financially involved?

Read the material and decide for yourself. Everyone, including the sleepy little college town of Davis seems to have forgotten about United Nations 2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. Follow the index down to learn more. The 3 videos immediately below are provided for educational enrichment.


This is a new topic for most people, but it is one that people must begin to understand for their own safety. Genetically altered biological products are not natural. Both types of products - chemical or biological - can make people very sick and both types of products can and do kill. NOTE: Credit for the poster cannot be given as we cannot track down it origins. Great job whoever created it!

SOME BASIC BACKGROUND ON THE TOPIC: The French documentary, named “The world according to Monsanto” which was directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.

It is strongly suggested that everyone view the movie - "The World According To Monsanto" - located online at:http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=105
From 1983 to 1990, Pam Marrone was in charge of the InsectControl group at Monsanto Agricultural Company. Her group was instrumental in pioneering projects in genetically engineered microbial pesticides and transgenic crops for insect control. After Monsanto, Pam was founding president of Entotech, Inc. Later, Pam left to start up a new company called AgraQuest,

One of the Agraquest employees was a young man; David Bell. He was a student at CSU Sacramento and had accepted a job with Agraquest in August of 1998.

He was one semester away from receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Sacramento, with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. David Bell's was working on the Laginex Project and although Laginex (lagenidium giganteum) had already beenregistered with the EPA and a patent had already been issued by the U.S., David was employed to find a viable agent to extend the shelf life of this fungi type organism.

In the short video which should display to your left, you can see some of the material that has infected these microbiologists that are still being denied WC coverage. This material came out of one of the AgraQuest employees that was exposed to their products.

When David became infected from the organisms in the lab Agraquest, willfully violated :
EPA Regulation - FIFRA 6(a)(2) •Regulating Biopesticides FIFRA 6(a)(2)

[THE WORKPLACE INJURY/ILLNESS/DISEASE of David Bell and others, WAS NEVER REPORTED BY AGRAQUEST AS REQUIRED BY FIFRA 6 (a)(2

One of the life forms that Marrone and her crew were genetically modifying is Lagenidium giganteum. Around the time that this life form was being altered, a new disease emerged that has been named Lagenidiosis. Prior to this manipulation of the genetic structure of Lagenidium giganteum it was unheard of or "unrecognized" for it to cause illness in humans. At the same time no one known had ever mixed in a genetically modified brew of "Swamp Cancer" -Pythiosis with Lagenidium giganteum before either. See:http://medtech.cls.msu.edu/medtech/mendoza/ The following is some background information on lagenidium giganteum. Please note that some of this is contrary to outdated EPA literature so you can understand why while it may sound as if it is innoculous, some people believe that it can be very dangerous:

Lagenidium giganteum is an Oomycete fungus which is pathogenic to a number of mosquito species, including Aedes, Culex, Anopheles and Culiseta (Tanada and Kaya 1993).
Lagenidium giganteum is a parasitic, yeast-like water mold or fungus. The life cycle begins with a motile zoospore (asexual stage) that seeks out mosquito larvae, attaching to and penetrating the cuticle via a germ tube. The fungus grows inward, eventually filling the body cavity and killing the mosquito larva. The fungus can then be released from the infected cadaver, generating more zoospores that can infect other larvae. The sexual cycle produces oospores that can maintain the fungus during unfavorable conditions, such as long periods of drought. Upon flooding, oospores release infective zoospores to start the cycle again.

[1.3 Lagenidium. Only one species of the genus Lagenidium is known to be a facultative parasite of mosquito larvae, namely Lagenidium giganteum. It consists of two stages: oospores (sexual), and zoospores (asexual) (See Fig. 1). Although this fungus has been named Lagenidium culicidum Umphlett in some publications (Umphlett and Huang 1970; McCray et al. 1973), this was later shown to be Lagenidium giganteum (Couch and Romney 1973).]

The extensive testing that the FDA refers to resulted in hospitalization of at least one of the employees involved in studying this product! The FDA either was not aware of this information when they made their report or do not care. - This particular fungi/water mold needs water to live. Humans and animals are composed of water, just like the inside of insects.

To your left you may view - Workers Comp, The Destruction Of CAL-OSHA/EPA And The Case Of David Bell - 58 min - May 13, 2008. This is a very powerful video in which Lawrence Rose M.D., M.P.H., former Senior Public Medical Officer for Cal-OSHA and part of the UCSF Occupational Environmental Medicine Department discusses the lack of CAL/OSHA standards with respect to oversight within the industry.

"Labor On The Job" focuses on the case of Agraquest biotech worker David Bell. Bell who worked in Davis, CA at a biotech laboratory owned by former Monsanto scientist Pam Marrone. David was infected with fungus and bacteria while working. He and his family have faced a terrifying battle for healthcare and justice from injuries on the job. The material found to be growing in his body was found to be earlier patented by scientists at the laboratory. He has since been prevented from getting full healthcare needed to save his life. The corruption and breakdown of the workers compensation system is connected to the deregulation of workers compensation and the elimination of all medical doctors at Ca-OSHA. Joining the show is his mother Sandi Trend, Larry Rose, the last Ca-OSHA doctor and Daniel Berman, author of "Death On The Job."

David Bell was working with the Liginex project. Laginex is the now packaged life form L. giganteum.

Labeling of this product: "LAGINEX AS®": It is EPA registered (No. 69592-Y) as an aqueous suspension with the trade name Laginex AS® . The product label contains the signal word "CAUTION." The package goes on to say that this is safe to humans but do not discharge it into lakes, ponds, etc., without a permit.

"It could be regarded as fungal-based natural larvicide for the use of vector control."
Received: 26 December 2006 Accepted: 7 February 2007 Published online: 4 March 2007 The above is very interesting and raises the question of where are the actual test results showing this water fungus to be safe? Employees of Agraquest are sick from it and there is medical documentation standing behind that statement. See:
http://biotechnology.kaiserpapers.info/pdfs/MEDICALPATENTFLOW.pdf

The following study on dogs show that it isn't very good for them either.
Clinicopathologic Findings Associated with Lagenidium sp. Infection in 6 Dogs: Initial Description of an Emerging Oomycosis
An oomycotic pathogen in the genus Lagenidium was isolated from tissues.... "Oomycota" means "egg fungi"

CHARACTERIZATION OF A PREVIOUSLY UNDESCRIBED LAGENIDIUM PATHOGEN ASSOCIATED WITH SOFT TISSUE INFECTION: INITIAL DESCRIPTION OF A NEW HUMAN OOMYCOSIS
"Immunoblot analysis of the serologic response of three affected dogs to soluble mycelial extracts of L. giganteum and of the previously described pathogenic Lagenidium species was performed, and indicated that each dog’s serum recognized a large number of antigens of both Lagenidium species"

Lagenidiosis - The best known species of Lagenidium is Lagenidium giganteum, a parasite of mosquitolarvae used in biological control of mosquitoes. Two different species cause disease exclusively in dogs:L. caninum and L. karlingii. Lagenidiosis is found in the southeastern United States in lakes and ponds. It causes progressive skin and subcutaneous lesions in the legs, groin, trunk, and near the tail. The lesions are firm nodules or ulcerated regions with draining tracts. Regional lymph nodes are usually swollen. Spread of the disease to distant lymph nodes, large blood vessels, and the lungs may occur.[7] An aneurysm of a great vessel can rupture and cause sudden death.[17] L. caninum is the more aggressive species and is more likely to spread to other organs than L. karlingii.[2

Contary proven scientific documentation the FDA has reported that this is a safe lifeform for humans to ingest. Lagenidium giganteum (129084) Fact Sheet from the FDA

From The Sacramento Business Journal - December 5, 1997
Laginex, which is a fungus that infects mosquito larvae in water, has been sold to several counties as well as Disney World. There have been some problems, however...........

See:
1) "Tadeusz Molinski, a professor in the department of chemistry at the
University of California at Davis and a member of AgraQuest's scientific advisory
board.

On May 1, 1997, the New Active Ingredient for Laginex was DENIED by the EPA - See Item 199 -
http://biotechnology.kaiserpapers.info/may11997.html
Note: The Above material is mirrored from since removed from web page formerlly at:
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/regulation/nysdec-lib/actions-decisions/new.reg.dec.97.html
Earlier this year AgraQuest secured $3 million in private financing through an investment group led by Rockefeller & Co.'s Odyssey Fund -- a New York-based venture capital fund specializing in socially responsible investments.

DR NG STATES: "Nonetheless, he had no history of requiring any surgery until his work at AgraQuest, Inc. It is therefore within medical probability that his exposure at work has aggravated his allergic rhinitis which in turn exacerbated his sinusitis resulting in the need for surgery in 1/99."

Dr. Nagy and Dr. V.A. Marinkovich's expert medical opinions, based on proven scientific literature clearly shows the relation of David Bell's iinjury/illness/disease to the Agraquest
Research and Development Company. See: http://biotechnology.kaiserpapers.info/intheory.html

In the interest of public safety and because this product is being grown to kill life forms by the company AgraQuest, the information on bacillus Subtilis is also provided here.

There are numerous scientific articles as to Bacillus Subtilis NOT being safe and indeed causing disease and illness. One of these articles is the 1997 EPA Final Risk Assessment on Bacillus Subtilis. Some of the others do include but are not limited to:

(Flindt et al., Pulmonary disease due to inhalation of derivative of bacillus subtilis containing proteolytic enzymes,Lancet I: 1177-1181], 1969) About the same time, Pepys & Coworkers studied three workers with work-related asthmatic symptoms who were exposed to B subtilis-derived enzymes (Pepys 1969, Allergic reaction of the lungs to enzymes of bacillus subtilis and Lancet I, 1811-1814).