Sentences with phrase «federal labs»

Andrew Hebbeler, assistant director for biological and chemical threats in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), explained at a meeting today of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) that the policy is a response to several recent biosafety lapses at federal labs involving mishandled samples of anthrax, H5N1, and smallpox.

«Scientists who are working in federal labs are being subjected to inquisitions coming from Congress,» he said.

Two months after safety breaches at federal labs first set off a public furor, top health officials are auditioning new checks on worker safety including specialized time - lapse cameras and digital worksheets to track crucial steps such as bacterium inactivation.

In California, only physicians may order lab tests, and all labs must obtain a state license and meet federal lab requirements.

Check out our Executive Director's STAT First Opinion article on how to simplify federal lab animal oversight without weakening welfare standards.

In contrast, the congressional subcommittee's reaction to unsafe conditions in federal labs, and its use of federal power to bring change, was unambiguous.

The announcement came a week after the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy ordered all federal labs dealing with infectious agents to check and, if necessary, strengthen safety procedures, as reported at ScienceInsider.

Federal labs will be required to disclose to the public what agents they are studying and information on accidents, and nonfederal labs will be encouraged to do the same.

«Thirty years ago many companies were based on offering products and services to support the federal labs.»

«Thirty years ago many companies were based on offering products and services to support the federal labs,» she explains.

Taking an interest in them, state and federal labs and local universities bred the carp and distributed their eggs.

Let the big science and technology organizations in government — the federal labs, all the places that need technological people — become part of First the same way corporate sponsors do: by adopting high schools and supporting teams.

For more on the federal lab lapses: Poor Oversight Catches Up with High - Security Infectious Agent and Disease Labs CDC Botched Handling of Deadly Flu Virus Bio-Unsafety Level 3: Could the Next Lab Accident Result in a Pandemic?

DOE's Sandia National Laboratories was tapped by the Federal Lab Consortium for their work in Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy Conservation and Temperature Regulation.

NASA's Gavin Schmidt even throws out a challenge: «Regardless of these spats, the fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the AGU or EGU meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists (not the famous ones, the ones at your local university or federal lab).

It is not uncommon (e.g. Eli knows of cases where) the substantial majority of people working at a Federal Lab, under government management, are contractors.

«Regardless of these spats, the fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the AGU or EGU meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists (not the famous ones, the ones at your local university or federal lab).

Of the 389 publicly funded forensics labs operating in the United States in 2005, 210 were state or regional labs, 84 were county labs, 62 were municipal labs and 33 were federal labs.

Importantly, OIE focused on an effort to accelerate the commercialization of research at our public universities and federal labs.