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Federal Experts Security Advisory Panel (FESAP) Recommendations Concerning the Select Agent Program

November 2010, Revised December 2010 and January 2011; Foreward Added June 2011 The Federal Experts Security Advisory Panel (FESAP) was established by Executive Order 13546 on July 2, 2010 to provide recommendations related to the security of biological select agents and toxins (BSAT) to the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Agriculture and the Read More »

Author:: Department of Health & Human Services
Publish Date:: November 2010, Revised December 2010 and January 2011

June 15, 2011
| Filed under North America, Featured, Report, and 2001-2025

Countering Biological Threats: National Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention and Multinational Outbreak Response and Bioterrorism Investigation Demonstration

After-Action Report Tbilisi, Georgia, 17-19 May 2011 This workshop was organized by the US Department of Defense (US European Command, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency) and the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Read More »

Author:: Department of Defense (US European Command, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency) and the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) with the support of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health of Georgia (NCDC), the US-Georgia Central Public Health Reference Laboratory (CPHRL), and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
Publish Date:: May 2011

May 27, 2011
| Filed under Europe, North America, Featured, Report, and 2001-2025

North Carolina State Biological Agent Registry

SESSION LAW 2001-469 HOUSE BILL 1472 Passed: January 10, 2002 In response to the potential threat of biological terrorism (BT) the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law that requires the registration of potentially dangerous biological agents. This legislation was enacted because of the recent anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001. Effective January 10, Read More »

May 3, 2011
| Filed under North America, Law, and 2001-2025

Legal Impediments to Surveillance for Biological Threats and Countering Terrorism

Abstract — The law observes jurisdictional boundaries as well as national and state boundaries, unlike biological agents. The threat of biological agents cannot be successfully controlled through surveillance technologies without removing the current impediments to a national public health approach. Public health law, traditionally and constitutionally a reserved power of the states, leaves our national Read More »

Author:: Texas Tech University
Publish Date:: 2002

May 3, 2011
| Filed under North America, Commentary, Law, and 2001-2025

Bioterrorism Preparation and Response Legislation – the Struggle to Protect States’ Sovereignty While Preserving National Security Federalism

SUMMARY — … However, the threat of biological attack–as distinct from chemical and nuclear attacks–has raised new concerns about our national security. … Preparation and surveillance are most critical to a threat of bioterrorism, and the only way to fulfill the Constitutional mandates is for the federal government to provide adequate national security. … Thus, Read More »