DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
RECOMBINANT DNA ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
WORKING GROUP ON DEFINITIONS 
MINUTES OF MEETING 1 
DECEMBER 5, 1986 
The Wbrkinq Group on Definitions of the Recombinant ENA Advisory Committee was 
convened at 9:00 a.m. on December 5, 1986, at the Marriott Hotel, Kenwood Roam, 
5151 Books Hill Road, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814. Dr. Gerard McGarrity was 
Chair. The following were present for all or part of the meeting: 
Working Group members : 
John Scandal ios 
Frances Sharpies 
Anne Vidaver 
William Gartland 
(Executive Secretary) 
A working group roster is attached (Attachment I). 
Other National Institutes of Health staff: 
Susan Gottesman 
Susan Hirano 
Irving Johnson 
Edward Korwek 
Myron Levine 
Gerard McGarrity 
Paul Neinan 
Thcmas Pi rone 
David Pramer 
Monica Riley 
Stanley Bar ban, NIAID 
Others : 
M. Brad lev Flynn, Department of Agriculture 
Charles J. Eby, Monsanto Company 
Rebecca J. Goldburg, Environmental Defense Fund 
Alan Goldhanmer , Industrial Biotechnology Association 
Jaimes Kaper, University of Maryland, Baltimore 
Elizabeth Milewski, Environmental Protection Agency 
Henry Miller, Food and Drug Administration 
David Moore, Association of American Medical Colleges 
Greg Pearson, Blue Sheet 
George Shibley, Department of Agriculture 
Janet Shoemaker, American Society for Microbiology 
Michael A. Swit, Burditt, Bowles & Radzius, Chartered 
william Szkryba.lo, Pharmaceutical Marufacturers Association 
Sue TOlin, Department of Agriculture 
L. F. Wright, Pfizer, Inc. 
lThe working group is advisory to the RAC, and its recommendations should not 
be considered as final or accepted. 
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