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Ingredients, Flavours, Fragrances and Synthetic Biology
Updated October 2013
Vanilla is grown by an estimated 200,000 farmers worldwide. If synthetic biology companies are able to market chemical compounds derived from synthetically modified yeast, the labour-intensive vanilla production of those farmers -- and the biodiversity they protect -- could be imperilled.
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