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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines from Google (18 articles)
Date: Friday, August 7, 2015 6:33:53 AM
Author: "Secretary, ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety" <secretary**At_Symbol_Here**DCHAS.ORG> 		Next by Date:
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Combating Food in student Research Laboratories
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 08:46:16 -0400
Author: Allen Niemi

From: Harry Elston <helston**At_Symbol_Here**MIDWESTCHEMSAFETY.COM>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] KSU biosecurity/biosafety issues?
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 06:08:19 -0500
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Thanks Diane and Paul.  It will be interesting to watch how this plays out.

 

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From: DCHAS-L Discussion List [mailto:dchas-l**At_Symbol_Here**med.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Schmidt, Diane (schmidd)
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 1:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] KSU biosecurity/biosafety issues?

 

Hi Harry,

 

Here’s “the rest of the story”:  http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/aug15/bri8415..html

 

Best regards,

Diane

From: DCHAS-L Discussion List [dchas-l**At_Symbol_Here**med.cornell.edu] on behalf of Harry Elston [helston**At_Symbol_Here**MIDWESTCHEMSAFETY.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 4:26 PM
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Subject: [DCHAS-L] KSU biosecurity/biosafety issues?

Has anyone else heard of this?  I just came across it: From USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/04/secret-sanctions-revealed-against-university-hosting-125-billion-biolab/31075709/)

 

 

Kansas State University — where a controversial $1.25 billion biosecurity lab facility is under construction — secretly faced federal sanctions last year after repeatedly violating safety regulations during its research with bioterror pathogens, records obtained by USA TODAY show.

Kansas State’s “history of non-compliance” during four consecutive inspections over two years shows a “systemic problem” and has “raised serious concerns” about the university’s ability to put safeguards in place to ensure safety and containment of dangerous pathogens, according to a March 2014 letter to the university from federal lab regulators.

 

Harry

 

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