[CPEO-MEF] BIODEFENSE: Ft. Detrick (MD) lab considers how to release "incidents" data

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

USAMRIID: Safety data posting to come
Will detail lab incidents when employees deal with biological agents

By Courtney Mabeus
Frederick News Post (MD)
December 8, 2012

The U.S. Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases is continuing  
to work out plans to publicly post information about incidents that  
happen in labs where employees work with biological agents,  
spokeswoman Caree Vander-Linden said.

Determining how to most clearly present information about the  
incidents in a way that can be easily understood has held up posting  
the information, Vander-Linden said Wednesday. She initially told the  
Containment Lab Community Advisory Committee in July the information  
could be posted within weeks, but Vander-Linden said this week that  
it has taken longer than initially expected. She could not estimate  
when the information would be posted but said it is close to being  
finalized. The plan to post information still has to be approved by  
USAMRIID leadership, she said.

"This is something we've never done before," Vander-Linden said.

The information will include a breakdown of incidents that happen in  
biocontainment level 3 and 4 labs -- in which employees work with  
agents such as anthrax and Ebola, among others -- and is broken down  
by spills, slips, trips and falls, cuts, and other possible methods  
of exposure. It will also be broken down by the number of employee  
entrances into the labs, Vander-Linden said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm? 
StoryID=144269#.UMY_oqV4F0B

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