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      Microorganisms: Good or Evil, MIRRI Provides Biosecurity Awareness

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          The life-science community is a key stakeholder in the effort to ensure that the advances in biotechnology are not misused. Unfortunately, to date, the engagement of life scientists with issues of biosecurity has been limited. Microorganisms have been harnessed for the benefit of humankind but in the wrong hands could be used in direct or indirect acts against humans, livestock, crops, food, water infrastructure and other economically valuable entities. The Microbial Resources Research Infrastructure in its preparatory phase has addressed the topic implementing a code of conduct as part of its programme of prevention of malicious use and continues to work with the international community to raise awareness of best practice to avoid misuse of microorganisms. Biosecurity has become a major concern for several countries creating numerous activities to put in place counter measures, risk assessment, legislation and emergency response. The goal is to implement measures to protect us against malicious use of microorganisms, their products, information and technology transfer. Through this paper, we wish to discuss some of the activities that are underway, mention key educational tools and provide scientists with information on addressing biosecurity issues.

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                Contributors
                d.smith@cabi.org
                Journal
                Curr Microbiol
                Curr. Microbiol
                Current Microbiology
                Springer US (New York )
                0343-8651
                1432-0991
                26 December 2016
                26 December 2016
                2017
                : 74
                : 3
                : 299-308
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.418543.f, , CABI, ; Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9TY UK
                [2 ]ISNI 0000 0000 9247 8466, GRID grid.420081.f, , Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikro-organismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, ; Inhoffenstraße 7 B, 38124 Brunswick, Germany
                [3 ]ISNI 0000 0004 0379 5283, GRID grid.6268.a, , University of Bradford, ; Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP UK
                Article
                1181
                10.1007/s00284-016-1181-y
                5313574
                28025658
                24b73854-cf5b-4853-b1a9-f8806257f51a
                © The Author(s) 2016

                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

                History
                : 21 October 2016
                : 9 December 2016
                Funding
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004963, Seventh Framework Programme;
                Award ID: 312251
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                © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017

                Microbiology & Virology
                biorisk,biosecurity,biological resource centre,code of conduct,microbial resources research infrastructure,microorganisms

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