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Oct 10, 2012

Oct 10, 2012

Changes in select agent rules concern public health labs

Robert Roos
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Oct 10, 2012

(CIDRAP News) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revised its list of potentially dangerous biological agents and toxins and the regulations covering them, and some of the changes have public health laboratories concerned.

Jun 15, 2011

Jun 15, 2011

Panel calls for refining, paring select-agent list

Robert Roos
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Jun 15, 2011

(CIDRAP News) – A federal advisory committee is recommending that 11 bacterial species and viruses on the current "select agent" list, including anthrax and Ebola virus, be singled out for special safeguards and that another 19 agents be dropped from the list entirely.

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