- Signatures: 501
- Goal: 0
- Deadline: 5-22-2006
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This petition urges members of the State legislature to answer citizen concerns about BU's proposed BSL4 laboratory, slated to be built in the heart of Boston and to pass Gloria Fox’s groundbreaking bill which will provide enforceable regulations.
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| 499 | 7:35 am PST, Feb 27 | Joseph Adelstein |
| 498 | 4:50 am PST, Feb 25 | Anonymous |
| 497 | 9:46 am PST, Feb 23 | Molly Adelstein |
| 496 | 8:36 am PST, Feb 15 | Anonymous |
| 495 | 3:35 am PST, Feb 6 | Anonymous |
| 494 | 10:41 am PST, Nov 10 | Lianne Gillooly |
| 493 | 9:23 pm PDT, Oct 16 | YAITZA'S GM |
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| 491 | 10:59 am PDT, Jul 17 | Rishi Nijhawan |
| 490 | 8:01 am PDT, Jun 15 | Amy Agigian |
| 489 | 8:38 am PDT, May 21 | Zoe Vanderschmidt |
| 488 | 6:33 pm PDT, Apr 11 | Tina Rua |
| 487 | 6:41 pm PDT, Mar 20 | Kaveri Rajaraman |
| 486 | 7:27 pm PST, Feb 25 | Chris Gruener |
| 485 | 4:32 am PST, Jan 4 | Abigail Rupp |
| 484 | 11:48 pm PST, Dec 31 | Barry Hart |
| 483 | 8:14 am PDT, Oct 12 | Joel Patterson |
| 482 | 8:57 am PDT, Sep 25 | Nancy McMenemy |
| 481 | 5:18 am PDT, Jul 20 | Anonymous |
| 480 | 9:33 am PDT, Jul 12 | Karen Spence |
| 479 | 2:21 pm PDT, Jul 11 | Jana Scholten |
| 478 | 10:40 am PDT, Jun 24 | Gilbert Woolley |
| 477 | 9:22 pm PDT, May 1 | Christina Beck |
| 476 | 4:16 pm PDT, May 1 | Anonymous |
| 475 | 3:07 pm PDT, Apr 23 | Ron J. Shapiro |
| 474 | 10:22 am PDT, Apr 3 | Matt Picard |
| 473 | 9:53 am PST, Mar 17 | Heidemarie Woelfel |
| 472 | 4:45 pm PST, Mar 3 | Joanna Olivetti |
| 471 | 9:32 pm PST, Feb 18 | Howie Friedman |
| 470 | 9:26 pm PST, Feb 9 | Erin Coughlan |
| 469 | 11:54 am PST, Feb 6 | Laura Mckenzie |
| 468 | 5:35 pm PST, Feb 3 | Jamila Martin |
| 467 | 9:01 pm PST, Jan 21 | bill cunningham |
| 466 | 8:15 am PST, Jan 13 | Jonathan Cook |
| 465 | 7:37 am PST, Jan 2 | LINDA CORINNE |
| 464 | 3:32 pm PST, Dec 5 | Samia Hakim |
| 463 | 12:51 pm PST, Dec 3 | Jill Kimmel |
| 462 | 10:00 am PST, Nov 30 | Gail M. Granville |
| 461 | 7:58 am PST, Nov 30 | Ernestine E. Washington |
| 460 | 10:00 am PST, Nov 29 | Laura Maslow-Armand |
| 459 | 9:03 am PST, Nov 29 | Rachel Wood |
| 458 | 7:46 am PST, Nov 25 | Anne Nash |
| 457 | 7:20 am PST, Nov 25 | Karen L. Miller |
| 456 | 7:03 pm PST, Nov 24 | Martha Leader |
| 455 | 3:40 pm PST, Nov 24 | Tillyruth Teixeira |
| 454 | 5:31 am PST, Nov 24 | Janet Gillespie |
| 453 | 12:06 am PST, Nov 24 | Anonymous |
| 452 | 6:07 pm PST, Nov 23 | Marilyn Monteiro |
| 451 | 7:43 pm PST, Nov 21 | Anonymous |
Protect Our Safety - Regulate Bio Research Labs!
I am very concerned that Boston University intends to build a BSL4 Bioterrorism Research Laboratory in an urban neighborhood of Boston, where experiments will be done on extremely dangerous biological agents that cause deadly diseases for which there are no known vaccines or cures. As you may know, accidents occur in biological laboratories, including the recent tularemia infections at a BU lab, and accidents with toxic biological agents can jeopardize the safety of the public and people who work in laboratories.
Rep. Gloria Fox’s legislation, "An Act to Protect the Public Health and Environment from Toxic Biological Agents", HB # 4249, would create a state oversight program to help assure that high containment biological laboratories operate as safely as possible. Currently, Massachusetts has no comprehensive regulatory program for such laboratories -- and there is no effective federal regulatory program either.
I urge Speaker of the House Salvatore F. DiMasi and Senate President Robert Travaglini as well as my my State Legislators to support and work for the passage of HB # 4249 so that if the BU lab is built the public health and safety will be protected.
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