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ae . aD 24 (0-88 the legitimate concern of the community with the distribution "and sale of narcotic Grugs, their importation is not complete-~ ly preventea,7" It 4s carefully regulated so as to insure , their confinement to appropriate ehannele.72 Viruses, seruns, and toxins are another example. Their potential harm would be Anoalculable if they were placed in unknowing or mischievous hands. But proposed importations of bacilli of dangerous and . highly contagious diseases do not lead us to shut our ports in panic. Rather, we place our faith in the competence of those who ere entrusted with their proper use.29 g0, here, while the material would not be importable for general circulation, its closely regulated use by an unimpugned institution of learning and research removes it from the ban of the statute. The successive judicial interpretations of the statute here involved point as clearly to this result as does the express Congressional permission for the importation of potentially harmful biologic products. The work of serious scholars need " find no impediment in this law. anne . 27 35 stat. 614 (1909), as amended, 21 U.S.C. §173 (1952). 21.6.P.R., Part 302 (1955). : 9 The importation of such products for animal use is Yegulated by 37 Stat. 832 (1913), 21 U.8.C. §151 et seg. (1952). heir importation for human use is regulated by so stat 702 (i954), 42 U.S.C. $262 (1952). The former is more strictly vsgulated. See 9 C.F.R., Part 102 (1949); and compare 19 C.F.R. 912.17 (1953), with 19 C.P.R. §12.21 (1953). -18-