ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA AND WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02930417
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2021
• Case Number: F-2020-01174
• Publication Date: December 8, 1950

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Italy
REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR. ?/ Dec 1950
SUBJECT Istituto Superiore di :,anita and NO. OF PAGES 2
World Health Organization'
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Nov 50
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n article on "An International Centre lor Chemicallqicrobiolegy in Rome"
it is to appear in the near future in'NuturoY.
The fermentation plant referred to in th- article has partially been constructed
from the equipment of the old UERRA plants allocated to Italy. So far as is
none of the UNRRA plants allocated to Poland, Yur;oslavia, Byolo-Russia� China or
Italy are functioning. The Czechoslovakian flant is probably =king LDME pi (b)(1)
cillin and it is known that ''seiso in Jena hos constructed a plant. (b)(3)
none of she pronostd International Centres for Chemical.
Microbiology are intended to be competitive to industrial plants, but rather will
serve as training schools for experts and technicians so that suitable InTkers
will be available for any enterprises introduced by commercial concerns. This as-
pect of the intentions of the World health � Organization plan is fully discussed.
in Technical Report Series', No 26 �entitled "&:pert Committee on Antibiotics. Re-
port on the 1st Session. Geneva-Aoril 11 to 15, 1950',
4. The Expert Committee on Antibiotics includes:
E B Chain, Rome Chairman
R V Christie, London
Janot, Paris
Theorell, :.tockholm
S E Waksmnn, New Brunswick
Melanie Craipeau, Geneva - Secretary
(Coordination of Research r1ection)
5. Despite the glowing description of the Istituto L:Yu.periore, the Microbiological unit
is far from finished and may take some months yet before it is ready for students.
Probably the newly created International Centre for Chemical Microbiology in. Rome
will be fully ready by September 1751, so it will be some years from now before
students traineq at this center will be ready to take their places as technical
experts in the world's commercial antibiotic laboratories. As evidence of this,
it is understood that when the Paimu-Souibb streptomycin plant is ready for pro-
duction in six to eight months from now, it is the intention. of Squibb to send over
a full staff of department heads to organize each division of the plant and to
train the Italian department heads in the work of their individual divisions.
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