High-Containment Laboratories: Assessment of the Nation's Need Is Missing.

MEDICAL laboratories; STANDARDS; LABORATORY design & construction; LABORATORIES -- Maintenance & repair; LABORATORY accidents

The article offers the author's insights on the importance of conducting a strategy for high-containment laboratories assessment in the U.S. The author says that the absence of national standards for laboratory construction, maintenance, and design have raised concerns and the potential risk for laboratory accidents. She mentions their recommendations to the National Security Advisor such as determining the laboratories' mission to meet national goals and developing national standards.