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1 University Hospital Medical School in England. The 
2 virus was being stored one floor above his work area. 
3 I don't know what safeguards were being taken; however, 
4 I am sure that the laboratory involved presumed them 
5 adequate. This is one example. 
6 Now NIH is proposing to relax safeguards and 
I limit the decision-making of exemptions to a group that 
8 lacks a general public policy perspective. This is 
9 simply not acceptable. 
10 What I have wanted to do, and make sure I 
II got directly to you for the record, was just to touch 
12 on some of the problems within the guidelines. I have 
13 spoken of the problems with the exemptions, and of the 
14 basic decision-making structure of the guidelines. What 
15 I would like to ask you specifically to do is to redraft 
16 the guidelines to reflect these concerns. 
17 Now, adopting the "good old boy" privilege, I 
13 would like to continue a bit more on some informal comments, 
ig addressing the question of biological containment, which 
2 Q is proposed to substitute when physical containment fails. 
21 The probability of a person having a pure culture, 
22 it is chance to end up with a pure culture in biological 
23 research. It is not something that occurs naturally, and 
24 it is something that a scientist will strive to attain. 
25 It is my belief that if someone is performing an experiment 
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