Solis Agroscience’s website indicates,
"Plant Transformation Services, end to end pipeline for the design, production and
characterization of gene-edited and transgenic plants…include plasmid construction, transformation, genotyping, copy number analysis, gene expression
confirmation and grow out services."
Oxford defines agriculture as "The practice of cultivating
the soil, growing crops, or raising livestock for other useful products" and defines biotechnology as "the use of living cells
and bacteria in industrial and scientific processes".
THEREFORE, SOLIS’
OWN DESCRIPTION IS THAT THEY PERFORM BIOTECHNOLOGY.
BioMass is a company that helps ready municipalities for
requirements needed to allow Biotechnology facilities.
- These are only recommended in an urban industrial environment (where damage from potential contamination to
the outside environment with Non-FDA approved genetically modified seeds, plants, pesticides and herbicides, will have less of an adverse impact on
humans and nature).
- They further recommend, "…municipal water and sewer
systems available in commercial and industrial areas…point of contact in
city hall to assist biotech projects…AND…
- Municipality’s Board of Health has
adopted the National Institutes of Health guidelines on rDNA activities as part
of its regulations…"
As I was unable to find a "point of contact" or even a Health
Department at the City of Wildwood, I contacted Rachel Scott Carson at the St.
Louis County’s Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Lab to see if
she was familiar with the 149 pages of NIH guidelines for Recombinant DNA
technology. She replied that neither she nor anyone else she knew of was
familiar with these guidelines. Speaking with her for over a half of an hour, I
got the impression that she was deeply concerned that Wildwood would even be
considering allowing Solis to have a biotechnology facility without the ability
to do the necessary oversight which is required to protect citizens and the
environment.
This proves there is no safe place for Agriscience
Biotechnology ANYWHERE IN WILDWOOD.