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1 health and safety personnel, workers, and members of the 
2 public remains largely unknown. Yet, such information is 
3 essential in assessing the current operation of IBC's 
4 and in improving their future function. 
5 I would like to share with you our research 
6 results, which illustrate the importance of collecting 
7 information on IBC's. 
8 Data for preliminary analysis of the membership 
9 composition of 30 of the approximately 150 IBC's throughout 
10 the country were obtained from the Office of Recombinant 
H DNA Activities by Michael Maniates and Pamela Lippe, of 
12 Friends of the Earth, and by Philip Bereano at the Uni- 
13 versity of Washington. These 30 IBC's were selected on 
14 the basis of available data. They represent research 
15 institutions as well as public and private universities, 
15 including many of the institutions receiving the largest 
17 NIH grants for recombinant DNA research — universities 
IB like Stanford, UCSF, MIT, et cetera. 
19 Biographical data were collected on all committee 
20 members, along with their professional field and their 
21 relationship to the given institution. In order to assess 
22 the representation of different types of members on these 
23 IBC's, individual committee members were assigned to one 
24 of nine categories. The categories attempt to distinguish 
25 direct or indirect involvement in recombinant DNA research. 
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