Open AccessInternational biosecurity symposium : securing high consequence pathogens and toxins : symposium summary.
Author(s) -
George Thomas Baldwin,
Natalie Bamett,
Susan Adele Caskey,
Daniel P. Estes,
Jennifer M Gaudioso,
Lauren Hickok,
J.A. Milloy,
Susan B. Rivera,
Michael Moodie
Publication year - 2004
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/919184
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , nuclear material , nuclear power , atomic energy , biosecurity , nuclear weapon , spent nuclear fuel , engineering , research center , nuclear fuel , computer security , environmental science , nuclear engineering , computer science , political science , nuclear physics , physics , law , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Nonproliferation Policy sponsored an international biosecurity symposium at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). The event, entitled 'Securing High Consequence Pathogens and Toxins', took place from February 1 to February 6, 2004 and was hosted by Dr. Reynolds M. Salerno, Principal Member of the Technical Staff and Program Manager of the Biosecurity program at Sandia. Over 60 bioscience and policy experts from 14 countries gathered to discuss biosecurity, a strategy aimed at preventing the theft and sabotage of dangerous pathogens and toxins from bioscience facilities. Presentations delivered during the symposium were interspersed with targeted discussions that elucidated, among other things, the need for subsequent regional workshops on biosecurity, and a desire for additional work toward developing international biosecurity guidelines