[CPEO-MEF] BIOWEAPONS: National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories public meeting(MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

At biolab forum, divides remain deep

By Justin A. Rice
Boston Globe
October 19, 2008

They announced the project in 2003, and BU scientists and officials had 
initially hoped to be studying the world's deadliest germs at the 
National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University 
Medical Center by now. Instead, they were cramming into Roxbury Center 
for Arts at Hibernian Hall Tuesday night for the first locally hosted 
meeting of the scientific panel charged with overseeing an environmental 
review of the lab.

After local activists and public interest groups filed a lawsuit in 
2006, a federal judge found the original environmental study for the lab 
to be inadequate, and the state required BU to address the study's 
shortcomings. Last November, a 16-member scientific advisory board, 
called the Blue Ribbon Panel, was charged with independently assessing 
the lab. The panel's members - doctors and scientists from across the 
country - were also tasked with bridging the communication gap between 
the institutions and the lab's detractors.

The advisory board, which hopes to make its recommendations to the 
National Institutes of Health by late 2009, started the meeting by 
posing questions to the crowd about how best to inform and educate the 
public on the lab and how the NIH and BU can seek the public's views 
about the lab's operation and oversight.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/10/19/at_biolab_forum_divides_remain_deep/

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Lenny Siegel
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