In February 1961, Dr. Murray informed Dr. Bernice Eddy that her research interests conflicted with her control work on respiratory viruses and that going forward she would be asked to spend time solely on research, and that her staff would be reduced. She refuted this claim and wrote back to the Chief of the Control Activities, Dr. William Workman. She then received a memo in reply from Dr. Joseph Smadel, the Chief of the Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsiology, who told her she was being forced to vacate her current position. It seemed that as long as Dr. Eddy was engaged in basic research with only minor relevance to her control activities, she was allowed to continue her work. But if her research began to identify factors which might require changes in regulatory control of vaccines, her work was to stop. In July 1961, Dr. Eddy began her new role in research only. Much of the treatment of Dr. Eddy was revealed in the hearings in Congress as part of the Consumer Safety Act of 1972.