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Revised California Stem Cell Research Rules Fail to Ensure Affordable Access to Cures, Consumers Warn
Date:10/8/2007

r and less ambiguous than an early version. He added, "Sadly, however, if the proposed regulations lack an essential provision - in this case a provision that guarantees affordable access for all Californians - it matters little how clear they are."

Proposition 71, passed in 2004, creates a $6 billion stem cell research program and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to oversee it. So far CIRM's oversight committee has approved about $210 million in research, training and facilities grants. Last week the state sold the first $250 million in bonds to finance the research program.

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is California's leading non-profit and non-partisan consumer watchdog group. For more information visit us on the web at: http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org and http://www.oilwatchdog.org.


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