WATCHDOG ROLE IN BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS

MAY 16 1963 Biologies Standards Has Watchdog Role Call it the Watch Dog Division the Division of Biologies Standards the Division where scientists and scientific workers of the National Institutes of Health are charged with the prime responsibility of ensuring the quality and safety of hundreds of vaccines anti toxins therapeutic serums in short all of the biological products that are concerned with human life and come within the jurisdiction of the United States Public Health Service. The Division of Biologies came into existence 61 years ago when its parent organization was not the now great sprawl ing National Institutes of Health but Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. The Division was established as part of the Services Hygienic Lab oratory and located in a small building then at. New Jersey Avenue and B Street SE in the Federal City Shortly after the farsighted creation of the Biologies Con trol Division all of the Health Services activities moved to a new building at 25th and E Streets NW for which Con gress had appropriated the then magnificent sum of 35 000 They remained there until NIH moved to Montgomery County Since biological products ad ministered to the American public are.