Sec. 27. **[**Protection of Confidential Information**]**
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## Sec. 27 **[**Protection of Confidential Information**]** **[**[7 U.S.C. 2157](/us/usc/t7/s2157)**]** ###
(a)It shall be unlawful for any member of an Institutional Animal Committee to release any confidential information of the research facility including any information that concerns or relates to— ####
(1)the trade secrets, processes, operations, style of work, or apparatus; or ####
(2)the identity, confidential statistical data, amount or source of any income, profits, losses, or expenditures, of the research facility. ###
(b)It shall be unlawful for any member of such Committee— ####
(1)to use or attempt to use to is advantages; or ####
(2)to reveal to any other person. any information which is entitled to protection as confidential information under subsection (a). ###
(c)A violation of subsection
(a)or
(b)is punishable by— ####
(1)removal from such Committee; and ####
(2)#####
(A)a fine of not more than $1,000 and imprisonment of not more than one year; or #####
(B)if such violation is willful, a fine of not more than $10,000 and imprisonment of not more than three years. ###
(d)Any person, including any research facility, injured in its business or property by reason of a violation of this section may recover all actual and consequential damages sustained by such person and the cost of the suit including a reasonable attorney's fee. ###
(e)Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect any other rights of a person injured in its business or property by reason of a violation of this section. Subsection
(d)shall not be construed to limit the exercise of any such rights arising out of or relating to a violation of subsection
(a)and (b).
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