"There are so few safeguards for how DNA is gathered and used in [China] that we are alarmed that U.S. companies, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, may be wittingly or unwittingly aiding or abetting human-rights abuses," four members of Congress in December 2022 wrote on behalf of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China to the company's chief executive officer.
China maintains the world's biggest DNA database, as a feature of its high-technology monitoring of a population of 1.4 billion people, and The Wall Street Journal has reported how Thermo Fisher's equipment has been purchased by police labs in the country.
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