Legal Threat, Cold Delay UC Experiment

21 October 1983

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Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 222 (4621) , 309
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.11644056

Abstract

A controversial University of California, Berkeley, experiment that would have released genetically engineered organisms into the environment has been postponed. Although Steven Lindow and his colleagues received approval for field tests from the National Institutes of Health's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, environmental activist Jeremy Rifkin filed suit against NIH, claiming its action violated the National Environmental Policy Act. With one suit pending and another threatened, the decision was made to postpone the tests until spring 1984. The outcome of the Rifkin suit will have an impact on other genetic research with ecological implications.

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Agricultural Genetics Goes to Court
Science, 1983