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

The 2023 Guidance recommends that, where follow-up screening does not resolve concerns about an order or there is reason to believe a customer may violate United States laws or regulations, providers should not fulfil the order and should contact designated entities within the United States Government, which it identifies as the Department of Commerce and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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What it connects

Screening Framework Guidance for Providers and Users of Synthetic Nucleic Acids → states provision → Recommended action where concerns are not resolved: do not fulfil the order and contact designated government entities

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Screening Framework Guidance for Providers and Users of Synthetic Nucleic Acidsstates provision ↓Recommended action where concerns are not resolved: do not fulfil the order and contact designated government entities

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Provision: Required action · provision ID us-hhs-screening-guidance-2023-refusal-and-reporting
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 a recommendation of the Guidance. It is not evidence that any order was refused or reported, and no reporting channel or contact detail is recorded.

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

“Providers should not fulfill the order and should contact designated entities within the U.S. government”

Location in source I. Introduction, 88 FR 71000

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 (15 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. The sentence names the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in parentheses as the designated entities. 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-refuse-and-report