# ADVANCED GENETIC SCIENCES, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `56722`
- **Case Number:** HQ-1986-0003
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $13K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ADVANCED GENETIC SCIENCES, INC. (AGS) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:  THIS IS THE RESULT OF A HQ-DEVELOPED    INVESTIGATION INTO POTENTIAL FIFRA VIOLATIONS BY THE FIRST   BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANY TO APPLY FOR A FIFRA  EXPERIMENTAL USE PERMIT  (EUP) FOR EXPERIMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE OF A    GENETICALLY-ALTERED ORGANISM.  EPA CHARGED AGS WITH VIOLA-   TING THE EXPERIMENTAL USEPERMIT CONDITIONS AND FALSIFYING    INFORMATION IN THE PERMIT APPLICATION.  AGS CONDUCTED AN     OUTDOOR EXPERIMENT WITH ITS GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED MICROBE    FROSTBAN  IN VIOLATION OF EPA FIFRA BIOTECHNOLOGY POLICY    AND FAILED TO ADEQUATELY REPORT THE EXPERIMENT IN ITS EUP    APPLICATION.                                                 /                                                            ISSUES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE:  THIS IS THE FIRST CASE EVER  FILED BY EPA FOR VIOLATIONS INVOLVING GENETICALLY-ALTERED    ORGANISMS.  THE CASE WILL TEST THE STRENGTH OF EPA'S FIFRA   BIOTECHNOLOGY POLICY AND ITS ABILITY TO ENFORCE VIOLATIONS   UNDER FIFRA/ 12(A)(2)(H) AND 12(A)(2)(M).                    /                                                            RECOMMENDED ACTION:  AGS PLANS TO FILE AN ANSWER DENYING THE ALLEGATIONS IN THE COMPLAINT AND THEN NEGOTIATE.  BECAUSE    AGS IS FILING AN ANSWER, EPA MUST BEGIN PREPARING FOR POS-   SIBLE TRIAL.  REGION-IX, NEIC, AND OPP WITNESSES WILL BE     BRIEFED AND THE TAPED INTERVIEW WITH POTENTIAL WITNESS       DENNIS BROSTIN TRANSCRIBED.                                       DRAFT SETTLEMENT STRATEGY CALLS

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