Similar authority is provided under section 205(a) for marketing research. This Act was 
further amended July 28, 1954 (P. L. 545, 83rd Congress) to extend contracting authority 
for all other fields of agricultural research. The language is as follows: 
‘‘Appropriations for research work in the Department of Agriculture shall be 
available for accomplishing such purposes by contract through the means pro- 
vided in subsection (a) hereof.” 
The annual appropriation act for the Agricultural Research Service under the appropria- 
tion language provided the following: 
‘‘Research: For research and demonstrations onthe production and utilization of 
agricultural products, home economics, and related research and services, in- 
cluding administration of payments to State agricultural experiment stations; 
($67,722,490 provided by the 1960 appropriation act)."’ 
Of this amount an estimated $6,554,550 will be spent for research related to the safe 
use of chemicals in agriculture and for the development of biological and other non- 
chemical methods of pest control. 
With respect to agricultural chemicals, the Department must collect and disseminate 
information that will serve to guide farmers, processors, and distributors, provide 
advice for its regulatory programs and assurance to the public. Only thus can we con- 
tinue to enjoy the world’s safest, most wholesome, abundant, and excellent food supply. 
This general responsibility can be discharged adequately only if the Department 
maintains a strong intramural research program. While we should and do collect and 
disseminate research information from all available sources outside the Department, 
the validity and applicability of such information can be effectively judged by the Depart- 
ment only so long as it has the scientific judgment of its own staff familiar with the area 
through their own direct research in it. 
Recognition of this basic principle is especially important in the field of agricultural 
chemicals. Since a very large proportion of the research required to develop and test 
such chemicals is and ought to be conducted by industry, especially on chemicals for 
which a profitable market is probable, the Department must not neglect the responsibility 
for verifying a sufficient portion of the procedures and results submitted in substantiation 
of claims of efficacy, safety, and compliance with legal requirements. 
Much of this research and testing is done in cooperation with industry prior to 
marketing of chemical products for agricultural use. To guide this cooperative research 
a policy statement has been developed by the Agricultural Research Service. Copies of 
this statement--Administrative Memorandum 120.4 dated September 18, 1958--may be 
obtained from the Agricultural Research Service. 
But research competence in the Department and research participation in develop- 
ment and product testing are not enough. Our current and past research program has 
made it possible to protect crops and livestock against many pests with safety to those 
crops and livestock, to the user, and to the public from immediate injury. But in our 
response to the many urgent problems which had to be solved quickly with limited funds 
and facilities, we have lagged gravely in basic research. 
The record of safety in use of agricultural chemicals based on our limited knowledge 
is amazingly good. I know of no proven case of injury to human health from use of such 
chemicals according to procedures permitted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
and the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and instances of injury to 
crops, livestock, and wildlife are small relative to the enormous benefits realized. 
We. are handicapped in use of existing chemicals and deterred from the use of many 
new ones by lack of adequate information. There is in current use a biological test so 
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