Bruce H. Goodrr* n 
11-15 Utopia IV*7 
White* too#, N.Y. 11357 
21-15 Utopia Rcwy. 
Vhitestone, N.Y. U 357 
March 10, 1976 
Dr* Donald S. Frederickson 
c/o National Institute of Health 
Washington, D.C. 20016 
Dear Dr* Frederickson, 
This letter concerns the recent controversy over the announcing of the 
government’s new policy on the new implementation in genetic engineering. 
I think I may have a solution to the problem that will keep both the NIH 
and the people happy and safe. 
One problem: The security of the laboratories is the question: 
whether the laboratory where the work would be done will be sufficiently 
secure against leakage and contamination. 
1) First, as stated in the article by Judith Randal, of the News Washington 
Bireau (in the N.Y. Daily Hews, Feb. 26 & 27), the work would be done in 
the biological safety cabinets. 
2) Then, to insure the containment of a possible leakage of this newly 
•acquired bacteria into the environment, the laboratory should be equipp-ed 
with a gamma irradiator. In other words, the laboratory itself will be 
one big gammator, closed off. Around the lab will be a large variety of 
highly sensative detectors to detect leakage of any new microorganism. If 
the detector should register some leakage, from these biological safety 
cabinets, an alarm would go off,and the whole staff, who are wearing 
specially coated outfits, go into a decontamination chdmber. However, as 
soon as they have evacuated the lab, the lab is sealed tight, and the 
gamma radiators are turned on for a period of time. This will ensure the 
killing of the dangerous microorganisms. 
Bruce H. Goodman 
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