Ensuring National Biosecurity: Institutional Biosafety Committees

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. Examines and assesses the current state of Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBCs)Collates contributions from world-renowned experts in fields as diverse as research compliance, law and astrobiologyReflects an international perspective on regulatory biosecurity and biosafety INDICE: Preface Laboratory Biosecurity in the United States: Evolution and RegulationU.S. Federal Oversight of Biological Materials and the IBCChallenges With Biocontainment Facilities - Building, Maintaining and TestingChallenges Faced by Senior Administration of Academic InstitutionsOvercoming Regulatory Gaps in Biological Materials Oversight by Enhancing IBC Protocol ReviewDual Use ResearchEmerging Technologies and Bio-ThreatsAnimal BiosafetyCrop Security: Current Priorities & Perspectives in Public Sector Institutional ReviewSelect Agent Program Impact on the IBCBiosecurity 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 futureIBCs - A Cornerstone of Public Trust in Research Strengthening the Role of the IBC in the 21st Century

• ISBN: 978-0-12-801885-9
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 11/02/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés