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. LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
STEWART E. MCCLURE, STAFF DIRECTOR
ROBERT E. NAGLE, GENERAL COUNSEL : WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

March 20, 1973

Honorable James A. McClure
Room 437 - Old Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator McClure:

We have received the attached correspondence from the FDA and the USDA
in response to queries from our office, stimulated by concerns raised
about potato blight by Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Professor of Genetics,
Stanford University Medical Center.

The enclosed copies are for your information only. You may be interested
also in an article, "The Great Potato Debate," in Medical World News,
February 16, 1973, page 29.

Sincerely,

GAYLORD NELSON
U.S. Senator

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