The Times: University researchers to be vetted to tackle bio-terror threat
Researchers at universities and biotech companies would be vetted under counter-terrorism plans to be put forward by the European Union today.
Brussels will propose an EU system of security clearance for researchers to combat infiltration by bio-terrorists.
Institutions such as research hospitals should also be vetted to strict EU standards before being allowed to carry out sensitive experiments, according to plans already being drawn up by Brussels before the arrest of bomb suspects in Britain working as doctors.
Wide-ranging proposals on tackling bio-terrorism published today will also include the suggestion that all science undergraduates take lessons in ethics to raise awareness of the ways in which their work could be exploited by terrorists.
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