Australia to Host Decontamination Conference

Australia is scheduled this week to host an international conference on eliminating biological and chemical contamination, the Australian Defense Department announced today (see GSN, Jan. 26).

“Decontamination and remediation are critical in the response and recovery phase of an incident involving chemical and biological hazards,” Ian Sare, director of the Platform Sciences Laboratory at Australia’s Defense Science and Technology Organization, said in a prepared statement. The Australian agency is co-hosting the conference with the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

More than 150 delegates from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States are expected to attend the three-day meeting in Melbourne (Australian Defense Department release, Feb. 14).

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