or legislative functions and is concerned only with questions of science 
and technology. 
At a meeting in London in September 1976, the Committee issued the 
following recommendations: 
• that national advisory groups be established to specify contain- 
ment measures for all experiments; 
• that experiments forbidden under the U.S. Guidelines not be 
conducted; and 
• that either the U.S. or U.K. Guidelines be consulted for standards 
to govern the conduct of the research. 
In London, in March 1977, representatives from seven nations partic- 
ipated in a workshop cosponsored by NIH and EMBO entitled "Parameters of 
Physical Containment," the purpose of which was to define the elements 
of physical containment for the safe handling of potentially hazardous 
biological materials.* Attention was focused upon the technical aspects 
of primary and secondary physical containment, and agreement was reached 
on the appropriate range in which physical-containment levels should 
fall. Further meetings are planned for work on standardization of 
physical-containment procedures for all guidelines. 
EMBO has also sponsored 3-week courses to train European researchers 
in recombinant DNA methods. These were conducted in Basel (1976) and 
Paris (1977), and a third is scheduled for the summer of 1978 in Basel. 
A laboratory for recombinant DNA research, which will satisfy the 
*See footnote, page 8. 
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