Final authority rests with the oversight panel, which will include representatives from most of the state's major medical schools, members of nonprofit research institutes, executives of commercial biotechnology firms and public members who are advocates for research in a range of diseases.
Lane Hallenbeck, the standards institute executive leading the effort, said he hoped to have a proposal ready by year's end.
The novelist Edmund White, the institute's executive director from 1980 to 1982, recalls that in the early 1980's the institute also became a haven for dissidents from Eastern Europe, writers and literary historians who desired freedom but in a comic way did not know what to do with it.
It also created conflicts between Marty Pickett, the institute's executive director since 1999, and Ms. Lovins, who had continued to work both on administration of the institute and on research projects with Mr. Lovins after separating from him in 1989 and their quiet divorce 10 years later.
Michael J. Malbin, the institute's executive director, said: "It's not only about the front-runner.
The code, instituted by executive order, will apply to all state government officials.
The institute's executive director is Professor Patrick McGorry, renowned psychiatrist and former Australian of the Year.
"It's a money message," said the institute's executive director, Betty McLaughlin.
James H. Hodges, the meat institute's executive vice president, said that a single outbreak did not alter the industry's position.
"It unscrews and all the pieces nest, so they stack," Elizabeth Thompson, the institute's executive director, said.
