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Genetic testing issue is a workplace time bomb

By JOYCE LAIN KENNEDY

Tribune Media Services

Sunday, February 25, 2001

Q. I attached an article from the New York Times (Feb. 10) that reports a lawsuit in a federal court in Iowa by the Equal Economic Opportunity Commission against the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. to end genetic testing in work injury cases.

A critic of the lawsuit, who is a geneticist, says the concern is premature based upon the "fact that there's been no abuse," that there have been no cases involving "real people."

Poor reasoning, I'd say. Do you agree?

A. I do. Once the technology is in place, without a strong federal genetic protection law and ...

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