They further recommend collaborative studies of the oceans and their organisms and though a beginning has been made urge a greater effort, Finally, they contend that in ten or twenty years certain radiotracer expériments will not be possible because of widespread low level contamination of the seas, This may weil be true, Committee on the Effects of AtomicRadiation on Agriculture and Food Supplies ~ Chairman,Prof, A, G. Norman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan This group first discussed the application of atomic energy techniques to the agricultural sciences, They feel great advances will be forthcoming, but perhaps not as soon as some claim, They note the value of radioactive tracer studies in improving our knowledge of how most economically to apply fertilizers, and to improve plant nutrition. They note the great potential value of Lonizing radiation to induce mutations in mpeeding up crop improvement programs, They point up to the invaluable contribution tracer studies can make to our understanding of animal nutrition, They touched on the problem of radioisotopes as possible contaminants in food products and point out that present law classes radioisotopes of any sort or in any amount as poisons, They urge a@ more realistic approach to this inasmuch as no food pro- duct is or ever has been literally free of radioactivity. There is a general discussion of possible effects of fallout and the like on the ecology of the country. The committee recommends that it may well be in the public interest to expand the present programs to a continuous study of the changes in level of background radiation and the movements of radioactivity in the system, (This ig in essence an activity that the AEC has already underway and is expanding very much along the lines re- commended, ) - 14 - Enclosure II :