The US Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has imposed a one-year suspended denial order on Indiana University for 42 alleged violations related to the unlicensed export of fruit flies – genetically modified to produce a controlled toxin – to research centres around the world.
The exports by the university’s Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center went to numerous research institutions and universities worldwide, BIS said, explaining that the university admitted to the conduct, “which alleged 42...
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