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Above, goats vie for attention as they stare across the farm. <br /> <br /> maintenance facility and a dairy facility. "Our dah'y <br /> facility is designed to be the state-of-the-art pilot <br /> facility for pharmaceutical dairying," Smith states. <br /> "I'd like to qualify dairying to mean the endpoint of <br /> the milk that is harvested is destined for <br /> pharmaceutical purification, not consumption." <br /> Because of the pharmaceutical nature, Genzyme <br /> must be concerned with the FDA's rules and <br /> regulations regarding animals, rather than those of <br /> the United States Department of Agriculture. "We <br /> had to take a good hard look," begins Smith, "at <br />,,~,' conventional dairy practices and building <br /> <br />l~nge 6' <br /> <br />design and combine those with the <br />pharmaceutical elements. Essentially, what we <br />have developed is a twin dairy arrangement all <br />under one rc,.M. What the building consists of is <br />a dairy on the north wing and a dairy on the <br />south wing. These are back-to-back mirror <br />image facilities. <br /> <br />We built our buildings as a result of the need to <br />house a very unique population of animals. <br />These were animals we imported from New <br />Zealand because of their disease freedom. We <br />have a valuable herd of animals that potentially <br />have the ability to produce a lifesaving <br />pharmaceutical in their milk. Consequently, we <br />needed to maintain these disease-free animals in a <br />microcosm." <br /> <br />With the number of buildin~; Genzyme has <br />purchased from lX(orton Buildings, it seems they <br />have found a trusted fi'lend. "[The people at] <br />Morton Buildings are great." declares Smith. "We <br />couldn't be happier. We're planning on a sixth and <br />potentially a seventh [building]. As well as <br />extensions on some existing buildings." <br /> <br /> <br />