Laboratories are not required to report their work with their local communities, which heightens mistrust and leads to blanket restrictions.
This photo provided by the city of Reedley on March 16, 2023, shows refrigerators and other medical lab equipment inside a now-shuttered medical lab with Chinese owners that officials say was operating illegally. The discovery in December of the lab producing pregnancy and COVID-19 tests to be sold online.
Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and officials who investigated the Prestige Biotech lab do not suspect it was creating weaponized materials, if it was working with “live” or infectious pathogens like coronaviruses, it should have been operating at biosafety level 3, or BSL-3, the second-highest tier of protection.according to what pathogens are stored and used in a lab’s work and what procedures are being done with those pathogens.
The levels are not legal mandates, however, only recommendations – labs can legally work with some level 3 agents without following level 3 guidelines. Since labs are not required to report their work to a federal or state regulator, we don’t know how many such labs there might be. Many people who live near legally operating labs view their situation as similar to that of Reedley prior to the discovery of the Prestige Biotech lab: they don’t know, and have no way of finding out, what pathogens are being used in labs in their town or county.
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