WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- National Institutes of Health has issued a notice called: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on Sept. 14 by Matthew Memoli, Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health.
Summary: As the world's largest public funder of biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is committed to ensuring that gold-standard science is conducted under gold-standard biosafety conditions. To achieve this goal, NIH is proposing a new policy that modernizes and strengthens biosafety practices to ensure that oversight keeps pace with evolving risks. NIH is requesting public input on a new, comprehensive biosafety policy proposal that, w...