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sponsoring organizations should bo moviny forward to 
conduct recombinant DMA research, identify and share 
beneficial findings, and nlso safe applications of such 
find incjs . 
Che Committee responded to the USDA's "Notice 
Reyardiny Research Involving Recombinant DMA Molecules , " 
which purpose was tv) state USDA policy with respect to 
the adninis trat ion and conducting of research involviny 
recombinant DMA. 
Me recommended tiiat tiie Joint Council on Food 
and Ayr icul tural Sciences develop standardized procedures 
for extramural and intramural recombinant DMA research 
to assure that the same yuidelines were beiny followed 
and honored; that the Notice Reyardiny Research Involviny 
Recombinant DMA Molecules," developed by the USDA Recom- 
binant DMA Committee, be accepted that wherever feasible, 
scientists workiny on recombinant DMA should be yoverned 
by a local biosafety committee, reyardless of the source 
of Hunds. and that the conditions for performiny recombin- 
ant DMA research, as published in the Federal Rey is ter in 
June 1976, be adopted as USDA policy and adhered to oy 
researchers for which USDA funds are used, either intra- 
murally or extramurally , or throuyh yrants, contracts, 
and cooperative ayreements. 
Althouyh the committee recommended the adoption 
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