Biotech Rice Saga Yields Bushel of Questions for Feds - washingtonpost.com: "Federal officials are still investigating how the experimental 'LLRICE601' escaped from Bayer's test plots after the company dropped the project in 2001. When they announced 10 weeks ago that the unapproved variety had become widespread in the nation's long-grain-rice supply, countries around the world blocked imports from the United States, rice futures plummeted and hundreds of farmers sued Bayer."