A screening tool to prioritize public health risk associated with accidental or deliberate release of chemicals into the atmosphere

The Chemical Events Working Group of the Global Health Security Initiative has developed a flexible screening tool for chemicals that present a risk when accidentally or deliberately released into the atmosphere. The tool is generic, semi-quantitative, independent of site, situation and scenario, encompasses all chemical hazards (toxicity, flammability and reactivity), and can be easily and quickly implemented by non-subject matter experts using freely available, authoritative information. Public health practitioners and planners can use the screening tool to assist them in directing their activities in each of the five stages of the disaster management cycle

Setting a Standard for Stakeholdership: Industry Contribution To a Strengthened Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Egmont Paper No. 52, December 2011

Excerpt from preface: The present collection of articles follows from a one-day seminar The Biological Weapons Convention, Biosecurity and the Industry organised by the Belgian Foreign Ministry in Brussels on 20 June 2011. Among the attendants were Belgian and European representatives from the life sciences, the biosafety and -security community, and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as Belgian Government officials involved with disarmament. Ambassador Paul van den IJssel, President-Designate of the 7th BTWC Review Conference, closed the proceedings. One of the seminar’s central themes was to investigate how the life sciences industry – one core stakeholder remaining wholly in the background of the discussions on the future of the BTWC – could become more involved. Speakers from the aforementioned communities zoomed in on industrial standards for biosafety and biosecurity being developed for laboratories in research and industry facilities as a possible point of entry. In follow up to the seminar, the idea arose to explore this lesser-known opportunity in more detail and highlight its possibilities and limitations from three different perspectives: biorisk management, industry practice and government responsibility in formal disarmament. The Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations Egmont agreed to publish the contributions in its Egmont Papers series in collaboration with the European Union Institute for Security Studies

Chemical Weapons Proliferation: Policy Issues Pending an International Treaty

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Non-compliance with the chemical weapons convention : lessons from and for Iraq

Jean Pascal Zanders; John Hart [u.a.

European Policies Towards the 2nd Gulf War

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Cartoon 5: Integration - page 2 (in French)

This cartoon - the second of two - is about the wider promotion of an institutional research process in biological and chemical security education in the Higher Education sector

Cartoon 5: Integration - page 1 (in French)

This cartoon - the first of two - is about the wider promotion of an institutional research process in biological and chemical security education in the Higher Education sector