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Science 26 March 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5666, p. 1955
DOI: 10.1126/science.303.5666.1955c
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Uncle Sam wants your help in revising the bible of biosafety. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will host a 3-hour workshop on 12 April to discuss the "successes and challenges" of implementing the recent flood of new rules designed to keep deadly "select agents" out of dangerous hands. The goal: to include lessons learned in a new edition of Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories--the influential safety guide known to bench scientists as the BMBL.

OSTP is looking for opinions on a wide array of issues, including the costs and benefits of the new select agent rules, according to a notice published in the 14 March Federal Register. Those wishing to share their thoughts--in person or in writing--should contact OSTP staffer Rachel Levinson by 7 April (levinson@ostp.eop.gov). The meeting will be held on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland. NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hope to publish a new BMBL by the summer of 2005.

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