And when the E.P.A. informed him in June 2012 that it would need to see
test results for how large quantities of spinach protein affected honeybees
and mice, he gladly wrote out the $300,000 check to have the protein made.

It was the largest single expense yet in a project that had so far cost
more than $5 million. If these tests raised no red flags, he would need to
test the protein as it appears in the pollen of transgenic orange blossoms.
Then the agency would want to test the juice.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/science/a-race-to-save-the-orange-by-altering-its-dna.html?_r=0

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