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France Moves Towards Gentech Legal Framework

28 April 1996

The French Senate has now adopted a series of amendments regulating research, development, production and the use of products based on genetic and cellular engineering techniques in the pharmaceutical industry. The text of the amendments brings these products into the framework of legislation covering pharmaceutical products, and will be examined in detail by the National Assembly and a mixed commission in May, before being regarded as definitive.

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