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Activities (ORDA) to its mailing list of more than 3,000 individuals. All RAC 
members, including the liaison members to the RAC from other Federal agencies, 
were sent, prior to the April 11, 1983, RAC meeting, a copy of the March 4, 
1983, Federal Register notice and a copy of the Undow-Panopoulos , 80 page, 
March 8, 1983, revised proposal. Copies were also made available to all 
members of the public present at the April 11, 1983, RAC meeting. No comments 
on the Lindow-Panopoulos revised submission were received by NIH in response to 
the March 4, 1983, Federal Register notice. 
The revised Lindow-Panopoulos submission was reviewed at the April 11, 
1983, RAC meeting. Present for all or part of the meeting were 23 RAC members, 
17 representatives of Federal agencies other than NIH, and 49 others. 
At its April 11, 1983, meeting the RAC found that the proposal had been 
modified to address the environmental concerns raised at the October 25, 1982, 
meeting. In addition, the new proposal contained a discussion of biosafety 
considerations which went beyond that contained In the original proposal. The 
RAC found that organisms modified by classical genetic techniques had already 
been released with no harm. Nevertheless, the RAC did insist that the 
procedures for elimination of the genetically engineered INA~ bacteria (in the 
unlikely event the plants were harmed) be modified such that no antibiotics 
be used. With this modification the RAC recommended approval of the proposal, 
by a vote of 19 in favor, none opposed and no abstentions. (K) 
The proposal was forwarded to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (L'SDA) 
which asked a consultant in the Department of Plant Pathology at the Ohio State 
University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center to review the proposal. 
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