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UGA downplays biolab inspection report

(Online Athens) Inspectors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted about a dozen deficiencies in a surprise inspection of the University of Georgia’s troubled high-security Animal Health Research Center last month. UGA officials characterized what the CDC found as minor. Scientists use the high-security lab on Carlton Street near East Campus Road to Read More »

June 20, 2011
| Filed under North America and Biosafety
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Op-Ed — The Proper Balance of Science, Safety, and Security…

It’s Only Achievable Through Sustainable, Competency-Based Training That is Consistent Around the World by Murray L. Cohen, Ph.D., M.P.H., C.I.H, President and Chairman of the Frontline Healthcare Workers Safety Foundation, Ltd. As recently as 10 years ago, you could count the number of BSL-4 labs throughout the world on your hands, and the private sector Read More »

June 14, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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‘Safety incidents’ at animal lab

BBC NEWS — The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has taken action against an animal health laboratory at the centre of a foot-and-mouth outbreak four years ago. The agency has served the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) with two “improvement notices” following two incidents earlier this year involving infectious material. The institute in Pirbright, Surrey, Read More »

May 27, 2011
| Filed under Europe and Biosafety
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Cattlemen Claim Laws Broken in Siting Bio Lab

FOOD SAFETY NEWS — Mysterious animal research that has long gone on at Plum Island is suppose to be transferred to a new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to be built in the middle of cattle country in Manhattan, KS. But a criminal inquiry into a group credited with attracting the bio-defense facility to Kansas Read More »

May 11, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Research
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Scientific panel urges more Army transparency in planning for Fort Detrick

FREDERICK, Md. — A panel of civilian scientists is urging the Army to be more transparent about its plans for an animal biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick. The National Academy of Sciences committee expressed its concerns Friday in a letter to the commander of the Army’s Medical Research and Materiel Command.