UPDATE: Class-action status denied for biotech rice suit

Thursday, August 14, 2008 | 4:48 p.m. CDT; updated 6:25 p.m. CDT, Thursday, August 14, 2008

ST. LOUIS — A federal judge ruled Thursday that hundreds of farmers will not be able to consolidate their lawsuits against Bayer CropScience AG over the accidental release of experimental genetically engineered rice into the food supply.

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