High-Containment Laboratories: Coordinated Efforts Needed to Further Strengthen Oversight of Select Agents

U.S. Government Accountability Office. 11/02/2017 This 13-page document is Congressional testimony before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce. It reviewed the Federal Select Agent Program, which is responsible for overseeing labs that conduct research on hazardous pathogens, and found room for improvement. The report on which this testimony is based recommended 11 actions to improve oversight. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - November 3, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news