[CPEO-MEF] BIODEFENSE, COMMUNITIES: Containment laboratory committee, Ft. Detrick, MD

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Containment laboratory committee weighs public opinion



By Megan Eckstein
Frederick News Post (MD)
January 26, 2011


Members of the new containment laboratory community advisory committee 
spent about three hours on Tuesday evening perfecting the group's 
charter and planning a first community meeting, hoping to quickly 
legitimize the committee in the eyes of a community wary of local 
biodefense labs.

From the committee scope to the background of its members and even who 
takes meeting minutes, debates kept coming back to how the public would 
view the committee.

The committee - given the task of boosting communication between 
residents and lab operators - was created in late September by the city, 
county and Fort Detrick. The seven voting members, two alternates and 
two nonvoting liaisons from the city and county are still hammering out 
the details of how the committee will operate.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=115794

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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