Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate
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Excerpt from Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate: One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session on Examining Issues Relating to the Interstate Transportation of Human Pathogens, March 6, 1996 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:08 a. m., in room SD-226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Orrin G. Hatch (chairman of the committee) presiding. Also present: Senators Thurmond, Specter, DeWine, and Feinstein. Opening Statement Of Hon. Orrin G. Hatch, A U. S. Senator From The State Of Utah The Chairman. I apologize for being just a little bit late. It is just one of those things that you cant get away from the office. This morning, the Judiciary Committee will examine concerns arising from the interstate transportation of human pathogens. It may surprise the American people to know that very dangerous, indeed deadly organisms which cause diseases and death in human beings are available for purchase across State lines not only by those with a legitimate use for them, but by anyone else. These organisms include the agents that cause the bubonic plague, anthrax, and other diseases. In fact, the Federal Government has more strict regulations on the interstate transportation of pathogens causing disease in plants and animals than it has for the interstate transportation of agents that cause disease in humans. I favor regulatory reform and a reduction in the Governments overall regulatory burden on the American people, but that is not to say, of course, that the Federal Government has no legitimate role to play. Some of the biological agents we will discuss today may be usable as weapons of mass destruction by domestic terrorists and, of course, access to them should be regulated. A recent Washington Post story reported that in May 1995, an individual in Ohio faxed an order for three vials of the agent that causes the plague from the American Type Culture Collection, the ATCC, in Maryland. The purchaser´s letterhead appeared to be that of a laboratory. For instance, I might say for those of you who are not familiar with the bubonic plague, this disease, otherwise known as the black death, killed one-third of the people in 14th century Europe. When the purchaser called ATCC to complain about slow delivery, the sales representative became concerned about whether the caller was someone who should have the plague agent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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