Events over the past 15 years have resulted in the promulgation of regulations in
the United States to enhance biosecurity by restricting the access to pathogens
and toxins (i.e., biological select agents and toxins [BSATs]), which pose a
severe threat to human being, animal, or plant health or to animal or plant
products, to qualified institutions, laboratories, and scientists. These
regulations also reduce biosafety concerns by imposing specific requirements on
laboratories working with BSATs. Furthermore, they provide a legal framework for
prosecuting someone who possesses a BSAT illegally. With the implementation of
these regulations has come discussion in the scientific community about the
potential of these regulations to affect the cost of doing BSAT research, hamper
research and international collaborations, or whether it would stop someone with
a microbiological background from isolating many of the select agents from
nature.
REFERENCE:
Morse SA. P
athogen security-help or hindrance? Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2015
Jan 6;2:83.
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