| Description |
1 online resource (x, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Laboratory biosecurity in the United States: evolution and regulation / Alan P. Zelicoff -- US federal oversight of biological materials and the IBC / Deborah Howard -- Challenges with biocontainment facilities: building, maintaining and testing -- Challenges faced by senior administration of academic institutions / Bruce Whitney -- Overcoming regulatory gaps in biological materials oversight by enhancing IBC protocol review / David Rainer and Susan Cook -- Dual use research / William S. Mellon -- Emerging technologies and bio-threats / David M. White, Charles E. Lewis and Jens H. Kuhn -- Animal biosafety / Nick Chaplinski -- Crop security: current priorities and perspectives in public sector institutional review / M. Malendia Maccree -- Select agent program impact on the IBC / Jeffery Adamovicz -- Biosecurity challenges for the IBC: an exploration of the roles and responsibilities of Institutional Biosafety Committees in the age of terrorism and biosecurity, now and for the future / Ryan N. Burnette, Nancy D. Connell -- IBCs: a cornerstone of public trust in research / Kathryn L. Harris, Ryan Bayha, Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, Carrie D. Wolinetz -- Strengthening the role of the IBS in the 21st century / R. Mark Buller, Nancy D. Connell, Steven S. Morse, Mark Campbell, Raymond C. Tait |
| Summary |
Ensuring National Biosecurity: Institutional Biosafety Committees reviews the various responsibilities and associated challenges Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBCs) face and proposes changes that may help improve this system and increase national biosecurity and worker safety. In recent years IBCs in academic and other institutions have been tasked with increasing levels of responsibility, overseeing work with recombinant genetic material and hazardous agents. IBC members often lack the training to effectively ensure that the work performed is truly safe for scientists and the general community, and so increasingly rely upon the expertise of the researchers themselves. With the proposed US dual-use research policies soon to be implemented, this strain may increase. This book provides readers with the necessary information to be able to enhance national biosecurity within the US, EU, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and more. Ensuring National Biosecurity is as an invaluable reference for biosafety professionals or for researchers who need to understand the regulatory landscape that impacts their research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Biological laboratories -- United States -- Safety measures
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Bioterrorism -- United States -- Safety measures
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Biotechnology.
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Bioengineering.
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bioengineering.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
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Bioengineering
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Biological laboratories -- Safety measures
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Biotechnology
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Bioterrorism -- Safety measures
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baskin, Carole R., editor.
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Zelicoff, Alan P., 1953- editor
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| ISBN |
0128018607 |
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9780128018606 |
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