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By Category: Biosafety

Army Lab Left Anthrax Widely Reachable Prior to Mailings

(Global Security Newswire) Protective measures in place at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in 2001 would not have prevented any staffer or short-term employee from leaving the facility with enough anthrax bacteria to cultivate the spores used to …

October 26, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Bioterrorism, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Great health strides

(Oman Daily Observer) … its Health Information Systems, Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed al Saeedi, Minister of Health, told the Observer on the sidelines of a meeting held to disseminate the outcome of the Biosafety and Biosecurity Project (BBP) at InterContinental Hotel yesterday. …

October 25, 2011
| Filed under Middle East and Biosafety
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Research Center Accused of Lax Attitude Toward Synthetic Biology Risks

(Global Security Newswire) Berkeley anthropology professor and biosafety expert Paul Rabinow had been employed for half a decade to make protection and readiness recommendations for the coalition of laboratories. Rabinow tendered his resignation in July and has accused the …

October 25, 2011
| Filed under North America and Biosafety
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Lab Fight Raises US Security Issues

(New York Times) Synthetic biology — which includes the development of fuels, organ tissue and tumor-destroying bacteria — became a focus of government and law enforcement agencies after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks that quickly followed it. …

October 24, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, Biotechnology, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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BU BioLab Triggers Community Concern

(BU Quad) According to the National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory's (NEIDL) website, there are four levels of increasing containment labeled Biosafety levels 1-4 (BSL-1 to BSL-4) within the facility. BSL-1 and BSL-2 labs are considered low-level …