By providing for overly restrictive frameworks, particularly as regards the inclusion of risk group 2 pathogens, an area that poses a problem for the majority of scientists, are you not worried that research will be unbalanced? Some scientists told us that labs in the United States had shut down because of overly restrictive regulatory frameworks. Could the other universities or research centres be penalized if overly restrictive regulatory frameworks are brought in?
On March 12th, 2009. See this statement in context.