Publication Date:
1984-11-30
Description:
〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sun, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Nov 30;226(4678):1058.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6593835" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Federal Government
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*Genetic Engineering
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*Government Regulation
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Judicial Role
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*Jurisprudence
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*National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
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United States
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of genetically engineered bacteria, the National Institutes of Health will
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conduct the simpler of two ecological analyses required by the National
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Environmental Policy Act on three proposed experiments. In May 1984 a federal
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district court ruling halted a University of California field test pending a
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decision on Rifkin's 1983 suit, which alleged that NIH had violated the Act by
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approving experiments without studying the ecological consequences. Still to be
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decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals is whether NIH must also issue full-scale
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environmental impact statements.
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
