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Mouse experiments at Boston University have spotlighted an ambiguous U.S. policy for research on potentially dangerous pathogens.

Other documents detail adverse 'events for which a contributory effect of the vaccine could not be excluded'

For the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (“NYSDEC” or “Department”), discretion has been the better part of valor when considering enforcement of certain...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had claimed the name and location of the testing facilities were protected by the confidential commercial information exemption of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

COVID-19 has polarized conversations about lab safety.

Construction is wrapping up at a new biological research lab in Manhattan, Kansas, where researchers will study vaccines and treatments for highly contagious diseases that affect livestock and humans.

Fear of the COVID lab leak theory has Kansas lawmakers pressing forward with a transparency regulation bill intended to prevent disease outbreaks.

“While the US is solely focused on Chinese labs, the US seldom pays attention to the fault in its own domestic labs, some of which have even triggered virus-related accidents before. According to an August 2020 article by ProPublica, an independent newsroom that produces investigative journalism, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported 28 lab incidents involving genetically engineered organisms to safety officials at the National Institutes of Health between January 2015 and ...

Published June 22. 2021 8:09PM  Eva Dou, The Washington Post In May 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virologys staff filed into an old-fashioned lecture hall. A local representative of Chinas National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets was at the lectern. The official, Tang Kaihong, discussed the national security risks of the institutes research and warned of infiltration efforts by foreign spies, according to an account published by the institutes parent organization, the Chinese...