COGENE also plans to sponsor, if support is available, an inter- 
national conference for industrial representatives to discuss recombinant 
DNA activities in the private sector throughout the world. 
COGENE has liaison representatives from the major European science 
organizations and relevant U.N. organizations, including UNEP, Food 
and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNESCO, and WHO. 
IV . International Health and Safety Activities: An Analysis 
A . National 
A number of nations have initiated activities to foster governmental 
monitoring of recombinant DNA research for purposes of safety and 
health. In the United States the recommendations for legislation 
by the Interagency Committee were designed to allow this significant 
research to continue under uniform national safety standards that would 
assure the best possible protection for man and the environment from the 
effects of potential hazards, the nature of which are as yet unknown. 
In the United Kingdom the government's Health and Safety Executive 
(HSE) will have the responsibility after October 1978 of ensuring that the 
standards of the U.K. Genetic Manipulation Advisory Group (GMAG) are 
followed. HSE has authority under the Health and Safety at Work Act to 
monitor the workplaces of all facilities. It maintains a force of inspec- 
tors for this purpose who have the authority to investigate industrial, 
governmental, and university laboratories. Advisory Groups similar to the 
U.K. GMAG have also been established in other European countries, and 
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