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1 with 10 liters of sample, they simply have to be kidding 
2 themselves to believe that there is zero contamination, 
3 that there is zero organisms other than the one that they 
4 believe is in the sample. 
6 technology is, it is being performed presumably on the 
7 less viable organisms that predominate the sample, but it 
8 would also be performed on the organisms that one never 
g knows are in there. That is what is of great concern to 
10 me and I believe to a number of people. Biological con- 
11 tainment is not the final answer either. 
13 I am not personally opposed to the research. I think that 
14 there is a place for it, that a great deal of good can 
15 come from it. But it is not something that can proceed 
16 without very careful guidelines. It is not something that 
17 can proceed with guidelines and decision-making being 
18 performed solely by the people who are directly involved 
19 with it. They simply do not have the general public 
20 policy perspective. That interface of technology and 
21 public policy must be maintained. We need to have the 
22 interface. It can't only be the technologists in this 
23 instance governing themselves. 
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With the kind of tool that recombinant DNA 
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I would like to conclude my remarks by saying 
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Thank you 
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MR. LIBASSI: Thank you very much. 
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