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... The views contained in the proceedings are those of individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies.
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... , and others to develop decision tools and engineering options applicable to such laboratory projects. This has resulted in Chatham House's Sustainable Laboratories Initiative and the OIE Consultation on Sustainable Laboratories, insights from which were shared with the workshop participants by the respective leads of the two activities.
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... During the course of the meeting, Sharples reported that the 2011 workshop participants discussed many aspects of the workshop topic, including: 1 The report summarizing the results of the 2011 workshop is titled Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop and is available on the National Academies Press website at https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13315.
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... The 2011 workshop participants also identified tensions in the field and suggested possible remedies. DETERMINING AND ADOPTING APPROPRIATE SAFEGUARDS According to Sharples, the 2011 workshop participants cited many examples of inadequate (in their opinion)
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... Sample and Strain Transport The 2011 workshop participants discussed the need to balance the risks and intellectual property concerns of transporting strains and diagnostic samples to regional or other analytical facilities with the costs and risks of constructing, operating, and maintaining additional biocontainment labs and pathogen collections in situ. Numerous participants expressed frustration with what they perceived to be unnecessarily restrictive transport, import, and export regulations.
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... Some participants suggested that the planning phase consider provisions for surge capacity (i.e., temporary increases in analytical capacity in response to disease outbreaks; ways in which a new laboratory might expand and complement existing national and regional capabilities; and how emerging technologies, such as molecular diagnostics, could affect containment requirements and reduce the need for labs with the highest containment levels)
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