As many of the previous sessions dealt mainly with BSL-3 labs, this session focused on some of the special issues associated with BSL-4 facilities (see Table 8-1 for a list of operational BSL-4 ...

The field of biosecurity encompasses a wide range of threats that require coordinated efforts across disciplines and geographic borders. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the immense risks posed by ...

Poultry operations seeking compensation for the loss of birds and eggs due to avian flu will have to get a biosecurity audit before restocking, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said ...

New Zealand has the world’s fourth-largest economic exposure zone and 10th-largest coastline, and its heavy reliance on agriculture, aquaculture and international trade make biosecurity a priority.

Back in May, the White House issued an executive order to strengthen biological research safety and quickly drew the attention of scientists and the biosafety community. The push was aimed at ...

UPTON, NY—The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has selected Brookhaven National Laboratory to lead a new research effort focused on potential threats to crops grown for bioenergy ...

South Africa’s agriculture sector must make biosecurity part of daily farming operations and long-term planning, not just a ...

China has moved from patchy, post-crisis biosafety rules to a unified legal regime anchored by the 2020 Biosecurity Law, yet fragmentation, weak risk intelligence and poor inter-agency coordination ...

This past winter, Stanford undergraduates enrolled in BIOE 122: BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience got a glimpse of what it takes to overcome the world’s most pressing biosecurity issues. From Weeks ...

Foot-and-mouth disease now poses a high threat to Australia. This highly contagious livestock virus is sweeping Indonesia – the closest it’s been to Australia since the 1980s. A large outbreak here ...

This session will start by reminding the participants that lab practices are intended to keep the worker safe, buildings are designed to keep the community safe, and that there are often many ways of ...