Federal courts ruled private companies don’t need NIH permission to field test genetically engineered organisms
In 1985, Federal courts ruled that private companies don’t need National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) permission for field tests of genetically engineered organisms.
The National Institutes of Health’s Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), in 1984, approved a commercial proposal by Advanced Genetic Sciences to field-test recombinant ice-nucleating bacteria. Its decision came two weeks after a federal judge halted a similar trial by researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, and barred RAC from approving other federally-funded research that would release genetically-engineered organisms into the environment.
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Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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