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1 of viral genomes except where a particular risk is 
2 involved. I think one can apply similar reasoning to 
3 the development of viruses as vectors for the introduc- 
4 tion of foreign genes into eukaryotic cells. 
5 Now, clearly, any document can be improved. 
6 The guidelines make provision for this improvement, and 
7 I believe that the proposed revisions represent an 
8 improvement in those guidelines, both in terms of 
9 the writing and in terms of facilitating research 
10 in this area, and they do so without compromising the 
11 public safety. 
12 I think I will conclude my remarks there. I 
13 have one other comment that I should wish to make. I 
14 don't believe Dr. Norman Arnheim as been able to attend 
15 today. He provided me with a statement which I have 
16 submitted to the record for you from him, which I 
1 7 brought down this morning, which makes comments similar 
18 to those I have just made myself. He is in favor of 
19 adopting as soon as possible the proposed guidelines. 
20 M R* LIBASSI: Thank you very much. 
21 Nancy Pfund? 
22 MS. PFUND: Do you all have copies of the 
23 testimony, because there are figures in it to which I 
24 refer. 
25 MR. LIBASSI: I think we do. 
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