PART B— SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES 
Prepared by the National Institutes of Health 
I . Foreword 
The following document summarizes the relevant worldwide activities 
relating to recombinant DNA research. Sources of information included 
meetings and conferences at which National Institutes of Health (NIH) 
personnel were in attendance, journal articles, personal correspondence 
and discussion between NIH staff and their colleagues overseas, documents 
published by a number of governmental and scientific organizations, and 
information received through the State Department from science attaches 
assigned to various United States embassies around the world. 
II . International Activities 
ARGENTINA 
Little, if any, recombinant DNA research appears to be in progress, 
in Argentina. The Argentine Biochemical Society has formed a committee 
to study the need for guidelines, but there has been no report of 
the development of guidelines by either this Society or the government. 
Note : The NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules 
and the Report of the Working Party on the Practice of Genetic Manipulation 
(the Williams Report) are referred to throughout Part B as the "U.S. 
Guidelines" and the "U.K. Guidelines," respectively. For an explanation 
of "physical" and "biological containment" as used in the U.S. Guidelines, 
see Appendix VIII. 
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