§ 627.2 - Background.

The United States Army BDP, on behalf of the Department of Defense, supports RDTE efforts to maintain and develop defensive measures and materiel to meet potential biological warfare threats. The program's objectives are to develop measures for identification, detection, treatment, protection against, and decontamination of these threats. To meet the program objectives, etiologic agents are used to conduct the necessary handling, storage, shipment, and disposal of etiologic agents. This pamphlet describes requirements based on Centers for Disease Control-National Institute of Health (CDC) (NIH) guidelines, Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, and establishes guidelines for toxins.