Summary of Analysis of Taxol Agreements

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer.

Drugs.

Forests and forestry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] [publisher not identified] 1991-1992

Summary:

Discusses issues relating to the Congressional hearing on the controversial "Taxol Agreements" between the Forest Service (FS) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and between BMS and the BLM, both of which allow BMS to harvest yew trees on Federal lands in the Pacific Northwest for Taxol, an anti-cancer drug. Analyzes whether FS and BLM have legal authority to authorize an agreement in which Federal resources are disposed of at no charge to a commercial enterprise

Notes:

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Summary of Analysis of Taxol Agreements

Publisher Number:

CRS-1991-AML-0091

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