In 1993 the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is created through the merger of the Industrial Biotechnology Association and the Association of Biotechnology Companies both small Washington-based biotechnology trade (and lobby) organizations, who hired Washington veteran Carl B. Feldbaum as their first president. In 1993 there were but a handful of biotechnology drugs and vaccines on the market and the human genome project was only recently begun.
BIO hosts the largest biotechnology annual event in the world, which “dates back to 1987, when the Association of Biotechnology Companies hosted an international conference in Washington, D.C., that exceeded expectations by attracting 155 attendees”, which grew to 1,400 in 1993 and 14,000 by 2001. [1]
- Early BIO timeline HERE
- BIO lobbies the FDA – WATCH, and helps support FDA‘s efforts! WATCH
- BIO is working to “combat” legislations/policy that doesn’t work in their favour of biotechnology and science, with Big Pharma as their funding partners.
- BIO targeting adult vaccination, to get everyone! – WATCH
- BIO making short films to influence opinion? – WATCH
Fast forward 2021 to the COVID-19 pandemic where a new bio-pharma mRNA injectable platform product was accelerated through the regulatory agencies under emergency use, where otherwise no regulatory pathway had been established for a gene therapy vaccine, this lobby group, “BIO”, who’s members include Pfizer, Moderna, Gilead and more, funded the “public health nonprofit” “innovative media” organisation called the Public Good Projects (PGP) in turn paid for pro-vaccine action and the take down of counter-narrative doctors and nurses. [2, 3]