I have another comment about why I think this makes sense, as well as a question to the officials. In the previous discussions, we heard that imported pathogens must meet the biosafety standards that we now have, and your hope was to ensure that all pathogens, imported or not, were treated the same way and placed on a level playing field. So what I proposed was to do just that. It would put them on the same level playing field. So I don't understand the concern about responding to spills or theft of level 2 pathogens or toxins.
On March 31st, 2009. See this statement in context.