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...proposed ordinance, like Cambridge's, would require all institutions using recombinant DNA technology to adhere to National Institute of Health (NIH) guidelines and would also forbid more dangerous experimentation requiring stricter P3 and P4 levels of containment. The Cambridge ordinance, passed in 1977, allows P3 experimentation...
Bernard N. Fields, professor of Microbiology, said in a question period preceding the forum that he "did not see any significant hazards (from GI's proposed plant) if NIH guidelines are followed." The work done in hospital microbiology labs is potentially more harmful than the DNA experimentation, because the viruses used in DNA research are weakened strains, he added...
...CERB took testimony from experts and studied proposals from around the country in 1976 and 1977, and then recommended that researchers be required to follow the voluntary National Institute of Health (NIH) guidelines if they wished to remain in Cambridge...
Currently, P-3 work is permitted under the NIH guidelines, and universities would continue to be allowed to perform the work even if Vellucci's ordinance is adopted. But private firms, including Biogen, which Muller said will reserve one room of its facility for P-3 work, would be limited to the less restrictive P-1 and P-2 work under the ordinance...
...Gilbert, who is on Biogen's board of directors, and Andre Muller, a Biogen executive, told the committee that they would abide by the NIH guidelines, adding that in some ways the work slated for the Biogen facility was less risky than research conducted at Harvard...