Lab-exit theory

Scott Becker, Dec 2001,  Association of Public Health Laboratories head:  There's security measures that need to be improved in labs across the country. Things as simple as locks on refrigerators, key cards for access into the facilities.

BBC Interviewer: (A) lot of listeners would be astonished to learn you get padlocks on stationery cupboards, but not necessarily, padlocks on refrigerators that have lethal organisms in them.

We certainly share that concern (but) the scientific community has been a very collegial community, and scientists work very well together. You know who's working on what organisms around.