U.S. Lab Safety Stand-Down - White House Memo

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   Well, about time!  Prof. Okawara, I hope you are listening! 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/08/28/ensuring-biosafety-and-biosecurity-us-laboratories

...when we learned earlier this summer of several incidents within the 
Nation’s premier laboratories of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention and on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, we 
immediately sought meaningful measures to address the underlying causes 
and reduce the risk that such incidents would occur again in the future.
To this end, on August 19, 2014, the National Security Council and 
Office of Science and Technology Policy sent a joint memo to all federal
 departments and agencies involved in life-sciences research urging them
 to take immediate and longer-term steps aimed at addressing the 
underlying causes of the recent laboratory incidents and strengthening 
overall biosafety and biosecurity at federal facilities. 
We urged all 
relevant federal facilities—including extramural facilities that receive
 federal funding—to conduct a “Safety Stand-Down” in the near-term, 
during which senior leaders would review laboratory biosafety and 
biosecurity best practices and protocols, and would develop and 
implement plans for sustained inventory monitoring.

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CRS, DrPH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Expert Level Adviser Joined: January 20 2014 Location: Arizona Status: Offline Points: 26660	Post Options Post Reply Quote CRS, DrPH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: U.S. Lab Safety Stand-Down - White House Memo Posted: August 29 2014 at 9:37pm
	Well, about time! Prof. Okawara, I hope you are listening! http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/08/28/ensuring-biosafety-and-biosecurity-us-laboratories ...when we learned earlier this summer of several incidents within the Nation’s premier laboratories of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, we immediately sought meaningful measures to address the underlying causes and reduce the risk that such incidents would occur again in the future. To this end, on August 19, 2014, the National Security Council and Office of Science and Technology Policy sent a joint memo to all federal departments and agencies involved in life-sciences research urging them to take immediate and longer-term steps aimed at addressing the underlying causes of the recent laboratory incidents and strengthening overall biosafety and biosecurity at federal facilities. We urged all relevant federal facilities—including extramural facilities that receive federal funding—to conduct a “Safety Stand-Down” in the near-term, during which senior leaders would review laboratory biosafety and biosecurity best practices and protocols, and would develop and implement plans for sustained inventory monitoring.
	CRS, DrPH

onefluover Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: April 21 2013 Location: Death Valleyish Status: Offline Points: 20151	Post Options Post Reply Quote onefluover Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 29 2014 at 11:52pm
	Looks like Monaco or Holdren is a member of Avian Flu Talk and watched the congressional video you posted. ( )
	"And then there were none."