Senate committee passes biosecurity bill

摘要

On November 4, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved the Weapons of Mass Destruction Prevention and Preparedness Act, aimed at improving the security and safety of research on select agents conducted in high-containment laboratories.rnThe WMD bill, introduced by Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-ME), would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the USDA to create a new kind of designation for select agents and pathogens that pose the greatest threat of a biological attack.