Some companies producing drugs in plants are already being hit.
Some of them are even used to produce drugs.
An international company, it produces drugs which are sold in over 60 countries worldwide.
India can produce drugs at a fraction of what it costs to make them in the West.
Federal law makes it illegal to sell products knowing, or with reason to believe, that they will be used to produce drugs.
Given the amount of drugs produced in the area, it is likely that foreign drug traffickers are also involved.
Several companies are trying to produce drugs this way, but no drugs have reached the market.
But none of the companies has actually made a commitment to begin clinical trials with a drug produced in milk.
A result in the long run may be an industry that is less profitable and less able to produce new drugs for patients.
So were the plants that produced complex drugs in wild profusion.