Last Wednesday, as California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger prepared to tell a biotechnology industry convention in San Diego that his state "is one of the best places to set up shop", Kari Stefansson was opening a letter that had just landed on his desk at deCODE genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland.rnThe letter read: "It has come to the attention of the California Department of Public Health...that deCODEme Genetics is in violation of California law" for failing to have a clinical laboratory licence in the state and offering genetic tests to consumers resident in the state without a physicians order. It gave deCODE until 23 June to submit a plan showing how it would correct the situation, or face "civil and/ or criminal sanctions".
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