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Microbiological Data Program Ignored in Budget Process

(Food Safety News) The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Microbiological Data Program will almost certainly be eliminated in fiscal year 2013 after the Senate Appropriations Committee decided to not include funding for the $5 million program in its budget bill. The program, which was launched in 2001, currently tests about 15,000 samples of fruits and vegetables  Read More »

Guidelines in Development for Meeting New U.S. Biosecurity Standards

(Global Security Newswire) The Obama administration is set to circulate recommendations to assist jurisdictional organizations in complying with recently unveiled risk mitigation protocols for federally funded biological research that could raise concerns about misuse, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy quoted a senior federal health official as saying on Tuesday.

Controversy Continues After Engineered-Bird Flu-Study Published

(Wired News) After months of controversy, an experiment describing how H5N1 avian influenza can be modified into potentially human-contagious forms was published today. The study was originally submitted to the journal Nature in 2011. Concern that its details, along with those in a similar, as-yet-unpublished experiment, could be turned to malevolent ends delayed its publication.

Controversial Bird-Flu Research Published: How Worried Should We Be?

(Scientific American) A highly controversial research paper on bird flu was released today by the journal Nature. It shows that a particularly troublesome strain of avian influenza, designated H5N1, which has been worrying public health officials for more than a decade, has the potential to become a human pandemic. In other words, H5N1 bird flu,  Read More »

After epic debate, avian flu research sees light of day

(ScienceDaily) After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals, and an unprecedented recommendation by a government review panel to block publication, one of the studies was finally and fully published on May 3, 2012.

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