On a passenger flight, the limit is 50 ml and on a cargo flight the limit 
is 4 liters. 
The Environmental Protection Agency has a number of legislative authorities 
such as the Clean Air Act and the Water Pollution Control Act that allow 
EPA to set emission and effluent standards. However, the more relevant 
legislative authority is the Toxic Substances Control Act recently passed 
by Congress. In an analysis of that Act, it was suggested that EPA may have 
regulatory authority to govern recombinant DNA research. However, there 
are certain exemptions concerning laboratory research in the Act. Further 
review of the authority and implementation will be done. 
In the concluding portion of the program, the representative from the 
Commerce Department reported on a meeting with private industry on the 
subject of extending the NIH guidelines to govern research in the private 
sector. As a result of the meeting, a number of suggestions were offered 
by the industrial representatives. These include that there might 
perhaps need to be mandatory registration for all recombinant DNA research 
done nationally but that there should be, if possible, voluntary compliance 
with the guidelines. An advisory committee or industrial forum was 
recommended that would relate to the government and serve as a means of 
communication between industry as a whole and the government. This 
advisory committee could continually review the standards and suggest 
modifications where appropriate. Certain modifications need to be 
done in the present NIH guidelines in order that intellectual property 
rights and patenting of new inventions not be compromised. 
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