[CPEO-MEF] BIOLABS: "Fort Detrick [MD] research leaders confident despite CDC safety breach"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Detrick research leaders confident despite CDC safety breach

By Sylvia Carignan
Frederick News-Post (MD)
July 24, 2014

The people in charge of Fort Detrick’s biocontainment labs are  
confident in their operations, even as safety breaches at other  
federal agencies lead Congress to question lab security.

In response to those breaches, the director of the Department of  
Homeland Security’s lab at Fort Detrick said he worked with staff to  
verify that their training was up-to-date and that the recent  
incidents would become a "teaching moment."

"It starts with expectations, it starts with leadership," the  
director, Pat Fitch, said Tuesday at the National Biodefense Analysis  
and Countermeasures Center. NBACC is the federal government’s leading  
organization for forensic analysis of bioterrorism attacks or bio- 
crime and often assists the FBI in its investigations.
Shawn M. Boesen, chief of the Safety, Radiation and Environmental  
Division at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious  
Diseases, said his staff continuously reviews their safety process,  
but no plans exist to make changes to policy as a direct result of  
the June and July safety breaches involving anthrax at the Centers  
for Disease Control and Prevention and smallpox at the Food and Drug  
Administration.


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