Scientific Integrity

1. PURPOSE

This Directive establishes the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Scientific Integrity Policy and provides instruction and guidance to Departmental leadership, employees, and contractors to ensure the highest level of integrity in all aspects of the executive branch's involvement with scientific and technological processes and analyses.

2. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS/CANCELLATION

This is a new regulation, superseding Secretary’s Memorandum 1074-001 dated August 5, 2011.