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~TESTIMONY BEFORE THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE - FRAUD ASSESSMENT COMMISSION~

JUNE 16, 2010

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Injured Workers & Advocates Challenge Corruption At 6/16/2010 CA FAC Meeting http://blip.tv/file/3777603/

On June 16, 2010 testimony was presented to the California Department of Insurance - Fraud Assessment Commission by; Steve Zeltzer, Dina J. Padilla and Sandi Trend for opposition for funding for non-compliant California District Attorney's Fraud Units who refuse to prosecute Businesses and Workers' Compensation Insurance Carriers; and their legal representatives for fraudulent activities perpetrated against injured workers.  Therefore, these D.A.'s offices are now part of the corruption and concealment of causation of injury/illness inflicted on the injured worker as well as not enforcing Federal and state of California law and Labor codes.

The United States Constitution guarantees each and every citizen the right to a fair and just due process.  This is NOT happening in the California Workers' Compensation system and the District Attorney's offices.

Sandi Trend's testimony revolves around her son, David Bell and Agraquest,  and it's representatives in the willful fraudulent concealment of the causation of David Bell's work related illness's from occupational exposure to unknown chemicals and biological hazards in the Agraquest biological research and development laboratory and off-site farms.

Opposition to ANY funding to Yolo & Sacramento County Fraud Units was again stated as was on 6/17/2009 and 9/9/2009.


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September 9, 2009, "Injured Workers Mother Charges Fraud At CA Fraud Commission"

DESCRIPTON:  On September 9, 2009 at a meeting of the California Fraud Assessment Commission FAC in Sacramento, Sandi Trend who is the mother of injured biotech worker David Bell charged that the District Attorneys in Yolo County and Sacramento were failing to prosecute fraud by AgraQuest owner Pam Marrone and Liberty Mutual her insurance company. Trend's son David Bell was sickened at the Davis based company and Marrone and Liberty Mutual refused to provide his healthcare despite evidence that he had over genetically engineered products in his body. She has presented this evidence to both offices as well as agents of the California Department of Insurance. For more information on this case go to http://biotechawareness.com/ This is a production of Labor Video Project P.O. Box 720027, San Francisco, CA 94172 (415)282-1908 www.laborvideo.org laborvideo.blip.tv, youtube.com

 

 

 


JUNE 17, 2009

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June 17, 2009 "Injured Worker's Mother Charges Workers Comp Fraud At CA Fraud Assessment Commission"

DESCRIPTON: Sandi Trend, the mother of injured Agraquest worker David Bell spoke at the California Fraud Assessment Commission in Sacramento on 6/17/2009 about the illness of her son at the Agraquest company in Davis, California. Trend demanded that the California Fraud Commission investigate the cover-up of fraud by the failure of the District Attorney's to do their job and the role of the owner of Agraquest Pam Marrone in this criminal fraud. She pointed out that the Yolo County DA Daniel Stroski, the Sacramento DA and the Insurance Commission had refused to prosecute Marrone's fraud. This FAC commission does oversight on California District Attorneys prosecuting fraud and dispenses more than $29 million to District Attorney's in California to investigate Workers Comp fraud. However they refuse to go after systemic fraud by the insurance industry bosses and those involved in this case. Pam Marrone and Agraquest conspired to violate health and safety regulations and lied about the injuries of employee David Bell to cover-up their liability. The insurance company Liberty Mutual has also fought David Bell's effort to get his healthcare taken care of.
The FAC commission which is chaired by William Zachry has itself refused to act and the fact that Zachry is also in insurance executive as Vice President of Risk Management for Safeway
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*IS THE WORLD BEING  LED TO BELIEVE THAT ONLY "NATURAL" (naturally found in the environment)  BACTERIA AND/OR FUNGUS IS ONLY BEING USED IN MICROBIAL PRODUCTS; BIOPESTICIDES, BIOINSECTICIDES, BIOFUNGICIDES ETC. WHICH ARE BEING USED ON OUR FOOD CROPS, ORNAMENTALS AND/OR USED FOR INSECT CONTROL?   THIS IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE... "MUTANTS" ARE BEING USED THAT THE PUBLIC IS NOT AWARE OF
Are we being led to believe these microbial products are safe??
*It seems that using "mutants" and mutants created using recombinant techniques. (last 2 patents below) doesn’t qualify the claim of "naturally found" bacteria and fungus which are claimed as being the “active ingredient” in microbial biocontrol products.
*When searching the United States Patent Office for the search terms of “Agraquest” and “mutants” the results were twenty (20) United States patents; that were assigned to Agraquest alone and furthermore does not take into account International patents. These patents uses the wording; mutants, mutants thereof and/or recombinant techniques.  There are many MANY more patents that don't list Agraquest as the holder of the patent; but Agraquest's scientists were listed as "inventors" on other company patents. (these are not listed below)
*The reader is invited; NO... encouraged to view the following twenty (20) Agraquest United States patents and decide for themselves whether we can be 100% certain that only “naturally found in the environment” bacteria and/or fungus is being used on our food crops, ornamentals and/or used for insect control.... OR are mutants being used?

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PRESENTATION - FRAUD IN THE COURT - COMMITTED BY JUDGE SUZANNE F. DUGAN IN CALIFORNIA WORKERS COMPENSATION SYSTEM; by Sandi Trend

VIDEO - INJURED AGRAQUEST BIOTECH WORKER, DAVID BELL TELLS HIS STORY; by Labor Video Project

VIDEO - Workers Comp, The Destruction Of Ca-OSHA/EPA And The Case Of David Bell; by Labor Video Project

VIDEO - Conflict of Interest By Judge Says Sandi Trend, Mother of Injured Agraquest Biotech Worker Bell; by Labor Video Project

VIDEO - INJURED WORKERS AND ADVOCATES DEMAND THAT INSURANCE COMP FRAUD BE PROSECUTED; by Labor Video Project

VIDEO - 12/10/2009; SANDI TREND, MOTHER OF INJURED BIOTECH WORKER DAVID BELL ASKS CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON HEALTH AND SAFETY & WORKERS COMPENSATION WHAT "GAMING THE SYSTEM IS?"; by Labor Video Project

VIDEO - Injured Worker, DAVID BELL's Mother Charges Fraud On 9/9/2009 At the California Department of Insurance; Fraud Assessment Comission Meeting; by Labor Video Project

VIDEO - JUNE 17, 2009 SANDI TREND SPEAKS OUT ABOUT FRAUD BY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AT THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE; FRAUD ASSESSMENT COMMISSION; by Labor Video Project

AUDIO - KDRT 95.7 PODCAST of Davis California's Journalist Interview - with David Bell, Doug Haney and Sandi Trend; by Davis, CA Journalist, David Greenwald *Yolo Judicial Watch)

ARTICLE - Biotech Workers Struggle For Safety Measures; by Seth Sandrosky: The Populist

ARTICLE - Biotech canaries - Sickened workers get little relief; by Seth Sandrosky: The Sacramento News & Review

ARTICLE - MARCH-APRIL 2010: COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE GENETICS "GeneWatch MAGAZINE EDITORIAL on David Bell and Agraquest titled; TeaTime In The Lab; by GeneWatch Editor, Sam Anderson

ARTICLE - The Fungus and Bacteria of Deregulation and biotech Worker David Bell; by Steve Zeltzer - LaborNet.org

ARTICLE - Cal-Osha: Going Down The Tubes?; by Larry Rose MD, MPH Cal/OSHA Medical Unit

ARTICLE - The Last Physician/Medical Officer Position is Eliminated at Cal/OSHA; by Larry Rose MD, MPH Cal/OSHA Medical Unit

ARTICLE - Blood, phlegm and tears; by Seth Sandronsky - Sacramento News & Review

ARTICLE - The Criminal Cover-up Of Pam Marrone's Agraquest Operation; www.indybay.org/newsitems Central Valley | Labor & Workers

ARTICLE - Toxic Dump Sites And Agraquest/Pam Marrone Case May Get Light In Davis, California Hearing; by David Greenwald - Central Valley | Environment & Forest Defense | Health, Housing, and Public Services | Labor & Workers

ARTICLE - Local biotech employee says health affected by work.. Officials say no threat to public health; by California Aggie - Oooja Kumar

BLOG - Biotech Worker Safety; by JEEG, The Council for Responsible Genetics - GeneWatch

BLOG - Mother of Injured Biotech Worker Speaks Out On Conflicts Of Interest; by JEEG..."This could prove sufficient evidence to reopen the worker's compensation claim." by Council for Responsible Genetics

BLOG - MAN BECOMES INFECTED WHILE WORKING AT BIOTECH, AGRAQUEST; by WatchDog on Science

BLOG - Did Davis Biotech Firm Expose Davis to Potentially Dangerous Pathogens?; by The People's Vanguard of Davis

BLOG - California Aggie Covers Issue of Agraquest; Yolo County Health Discounts Health Concerns; by The People's Vanguard of Davis

BLOG - The Vanguard's Article on AgraQuest Provokes Strong Response From both County Health Director and Building Owner; by The People's Vanguard of Davis

BLOG - Did Congressman Lungren Ignore Potential National Security Threat Posed By AgraQuest's Imporation of Foreign Soils?; by The People's Vanguard of Davis

 


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Identification and Characterization of Novel Genetic Markers Associated with Biological Control Activities in Bacillus subtilis
-Raghavendra Joshi and Brian B. McSpadden Gardener Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, OARDC, 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster 44691.
Accepted for publication 3 October 2005.

PAGE 4:
RESULTS
Characterization of strain-specific DNA fragments. In order to identify DNA markers for biological control in B. subtilis, SSH was conducted to identify sequences present in the genomes of strains GB03 and QST713 but absent in the genome of strain 168. In all, 149 subtracted fragments (74 from GB03 and 75 from QST713) were cloned and analyzed. Fragment lengths varied from 180 to 1,520 bp, with a median fragment size of 560 bp. Se- quence analyses revealed that 80 of the subtracted fragments (36 from GB03 and 44 from QST713) had significant nucleotide homology (E value <1E-4) to previously identified Bacillus sequences. The sequences of these fragments can be found in GenBank under accession numbers DQ011366-401 (GB03) and DQ0113402-446 (QST713) in the same order as presented in Tables 1 and 2, respectively. In several instances, clones from both strains GB03 and QST713 were identified that had similarity to gene fragments from homologous operons. These included genes for the biosynthesis of cyclic lipopeptides (bam/bmy, fen, and srf ) and the cell wall component teichuronic acid (tua). Subtracted fragments matching the yndJ gene from B. subtilis subsp. amyloliquefaciens strain FZB42 also were recovered from both strains GB03 and QST713. Additionally, multiple sporulation gene fragments (spo) were found in both subtracted libraries.

DISCUSSION:
We characterized over 60,000 bp of genomic sequence obtained from strains of B. subtilis used in two different biocontrol prod- ucts. Nearly half of the 149 sequences we analyzed were sufficiently different from those presently in GenBank that no functional assignments could be made (data not shown). We expect that many of those unique sequences represent noncoding regions which are likely to be strain specific and therefore of limited value for population studies. Nonetheless, further characterization of these unique sequences is warranted because some may encode novel genes, an unknown fraction of which may be involved in biological control. Of the 80 Bacillus-like sequences we obtained, 65 were associated with genes predicted to encode a variety of metabolic functions. Much research has gone into establishing the function of B. subtilis genes, but such work has yet to reveal the function of all of the ORFs identified in strain 168 (48). In addition, their potential roles in bacterial fitness in the natural environment and biocontrol activities in a managed environment remain highly speculative. Nonetheless, several of these gene fragments identified present intriguing new avenues for investigating the nature of antibiotic-mediated biocontrol. For example, dppC is pre- dicted to code for dipeptide transporters and the homologs identi-

Nearly half of the 149 sequences we analyzed were sufficiently different from those presently in GenBank that no functional assignments could be made

Identification of subtracted genome fragments obtained from Bacillus subtilis QST713 [AGRAQUEST]

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens- RESULTS
Subtracted fragments matching the yndJ gene from B. subtilis subsp. amyloliquefaciens strain FZB42 also were recovered from both strains GB03 and QST713.
Bacillus  cereus - RESULTS
.....with the exception that one of two faint bands amplified from most B. cereus strains comigrated with the ituC product amplified from the positive control strain, QST713.
...And, interestingly enough, only some of the B. cereus isolates and B. pumilus GB34 were maximally antagonistic to Phytophthora sojae in these assays, though QST713 did show a marginal degree of inhibition in all assays (i.e., average score of 1.0).

Bacillus  licheniformis (page 7)
...However, similar types of associations were observed in other Bacillus spp. As a group, all of the B. pumilus and B. licheniformis isolates scored (weakly) positive for one or more gene markers and were more inhibitory to R. solani (P = 0.01) compared with those strains lacking the scored markers. Additionally, the two B. pumilus isolates that were scored weakly positive for the bmy gene (i.e., 1.1a2 and 2.5a) were significantly more inhibitory to Pythium ultimum than the other isolates lacking all of the markers (P = 0.04). However, presence of the amplifiable markers was not necessarily a good predictor of biocontrol capacity in B. pumilus because the commercialized biocontrol strain GB34 was scored negative for all of the amplifiable targets, yet displayed in vitro in- hibition capacities similar to those of the commercialized B. subtilis strains GB03, MBI600, and QST713.