Expected change: U.S. recombinant DNA guidelines

Shapley, D.

Nature 296(5860): 793

1982


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-0836
PMID: 11643741
Document Number: 193338
Continuing the trend towards relaxing controls on recombinant DNA research, the National Institutes of Health published revised guidelines in the Federal Register of 21 April 1982. Although the existing system of mandatory controls and institutional biosafety committees is retained, no class of experiments will be totally prohibited, and the guidelines dealing with containment levels have been greatly simplified.

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