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To broadly apply recombinant DNA techniques in the commercial sphere opens the door 
to a kinpj of genetic manipulation that violates ethical, religious and political tenets formerly 
held sacred. If such activity is going to continue, however, Labor must have meaningful 
and ongoing input into its regulation if any degree of worker and public protection is to be 
achieved. A first step would be for members of this subcommittee to meet with workers 
at the actual point of production to discuss with them (in a setting that allows them to speak 
freely) the workplace as they perceive it — both in terms of exposures, of education, of 
access to information and of health care received at the plant. The experiened of the workers 
in general industry is extensive and applicable to this "novel" mode of production. 
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