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1 Given the unknown nature of the effects of 
2 exposure to recombinant DNA material and the inability 
3 to provide a mechanism for adequate protection of the 
4 worker, the risk of recombinant DNA research would 
5 seem to outweigh the benefits. 
6 In summary, then, the adverse health effects 
1 of exposure to recombinant DNA material are unknown and 
8 in some cases where predictable, irreversible. To 
9 adequately protect the worker from exposure to recombinant 
10 DNA material is impossible. The guidelines have limited 
applicability; they are nonspecific in such important areas 
12 as medical surveillance and emergency spills; and they 
13 lack adequate sanctions. Accidents are inevitable, and 
14 in fact have already occurred. 
15 There are other, less hazardous means of 
16 achieving the same ends. To promulgate such a set of 
17 guidelines that is neither enforceable nor adequate, nor 
18 applicable to all recombinant DNA research, is an uncon- 
19 scionable act that will create a false and dangerous 
2 q sense of security. 
21 Therefore, the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers 
22 International Union, in order to protect the present and 
23 future health of this country — both the worker health and 
24 the public health — has no choice but to maintain what has 
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