Claim · 2023-10-13 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The 2023 Guidance recommends that, upon receiving an order for synthetic nucleic acids, providers and third-party vendors perform sequence screening, verify the identity of their customers, and follow up to verify the legitimacy of the order when sequences in the Guidance's category of concern are identified.

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Screening Framework Guidance for Providers and Users of Synthetic Nucleic Acids → states provision → Recommended provider actions on receiving an order: sequence screening, customer identity verification and follow-up

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Screening Framework Guidance for Providers and Users of Synthetic Nucleic Acidsstates provision ↓Recommended provider actions on receiving an order: sequence screening, customer identity verification and follow-up

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Provision: Required action · provision ID us-hhs-screening-guidance-2023-provider-order-screening
Subject version: As published in the Federal Register of 13 October 2023 (88 FR 70998) · Published 2023-10-13 · Effective date not established
Date: 2023-10-13 · publication

Scope and limitsStates what the Guidance recommends of the categories it defines. It is not evidence that any provider screens orders or verifies customers, and the Guidance's screening methodology is not recorded. Policy-level requirement only. The Guidance's sequence screening methodology section and its criteria for identifying sequences of the category it abbreviates SOCs were read and excluded.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Screening Framework Guidance for Providers and Users of Synthetic Nucleic Acids (88 FR 70998)

Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives) via govinfo.gov · Publication date unknown

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Source excerpt

“upon receiving an order for synthetic nucleic acids, Providers and Third-Party Vendors perform sequence screening, verify the identity of their Customers, and follow up to verify the legitimacy of the order when SOCs are identified”

Location in source I. Introduction, recommendation (1), 88 FR 70999

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives) via govinfo.gov
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 20a3b9081d675539a0d8991d9021e5216ec373da9750df8711a4b55a47d54f16). Federal Register print of 13 October 2023, Vol. 88, No. 197, pp. 70998-71004, FR Doc. 2023-22540. The notice publishes the Guidance in full. Its technical sections (sequence screening methodology and the definitions that state screening criteria) were read but are not cited. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 20a3b9081d675539a0d8991d9021e5216ec373da9750df8711a4b55a47d54f16, the same bytes).
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives) via govinfo.gov, “Screening Framework Guidance for Providers and Users of Synthetic Nucleic Acids (88 FR 70998)”.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI and biosecurity (research/ai-bio). The quotation (35 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. SOC is the Guidance's own abbreviation for its defined category of sequences; its definition is not reproduced. No human editorial review.

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Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.

Date. Provision as the 2023 expression states it, dated by its publication.

Record ID ab-scr-hhs-2023-provider-screening