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USDA to Ban Six More Deadly Strains of E. Coli

(Food Safety News) Six dangerous strains of E. coli — dubbed “the Big Six” — will soon be banned from the beef supply, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said Monday. “This is one of the biggest steps forward in the protection of the beef supply in some time,” Under Secretary for Food Safety at USDA, Read More »

September 13, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, Biosafety, and Public Health
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Regulating Synthetic Biology: How Much or How Little?

(Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine) That debate is taking shape not only broadly but in the nascent field of synthetic biology, where scientific, public-health, and business interests are converging. In a recently published paper in Science, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) …

September 6, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Biotechnology
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Jordan hosts 3rd Biosafety and Biosecurity International Conference 2011

(AME Info) Under the patronage of HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, Jordan will host the 3rd Biosafety and Biosecurity International Conference 2011 between the 13th and 15th of September at El Hassan Science City (EHSC), Amman. The conference aims at identifying …

September 6, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Europe, Middle East, North America, Biosafety, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Research watched closely at Army’s newly upgraded biodefense lab at Fort Detrick in Md.

(Greenfield Daily Reporter) FREDERICK, Md. — Cutting-edge technology is matched by high-tech security at a newly renovated Army biodefense laboratory, officials said Wednesday during a tour of the research suite at Fort Detrick. Scientists working with the world’s deadliest pathogens are monitored by video cameras, watched through windows and tracked by sensors that know when Read More »

August 11, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Research
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India’s National Institute of Virology Builds Hi-tech Virus Lab

(ExpressIndia) — Going a step further in research on agents of dangerous diseases to tackle any outbreak or exigencies like biological terror, the National Institute of Virology (NIV) is giving final touches to the Bio Safety Level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory on its Pashan campus. Highly dangerous viruses will be locked inside the BSL-4 lab, which has Read More »