Basic Concepts on Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity Flashcards
Richard Nixon ordered the origins of biosafety during the Cold War. True or False.
False (Franklin Roosevelt)
__________ was designated a permanent installation for biological research and development.
Camp Detrick
He engaged some of Camp Detrick’s leading scientists about the nature of
their work and developed specific technical solutions such as Class III safety cabinets and laminar flow hoods to address specific risks.
Newell A. Johnson
He described the use of mechanical pipettors to
prevent laboratory-acquired infections in 1907
and 1908
Arnold Wedum
early progenitors to the nearly ubiquitous engineered control now known as the ___________ , were also first documented outside of the US biological weapons program.
biological safety cabinet
In 1909, a pharmaceutical company in Pennsylvania developed a ventilated cabinet to prevent infection from _____________.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
At the height of increasing mortality and morbidity due to _______ in 1967, WHO aggressively pursued the eradication of the Virus.
smallpox
World Health Assembly consolidated the
remaining virus stocks into two locations
CDC and SRCVB
The technical means of mitigating the
risk of accidental infection from or release of agents in the laboratory setting as well as the community and environment it is situated in.
Biosafety levels
He was recognized as one Of the pioneers of
biosafety that provided the foundation for evaluating the risks of handling infectious microorganisms and for recognizing biological hazards and developing practices, equipment, and facility safeguards for their control.
Arnold Wedum
To monitor the transfer of a select list of
biological agents from one facility to
another.
Select Agent Regulations
Anthrax attacks of 2001, also known as ________
Amerithrax
Materials that pose the greatest risk of deliberate misuse, and the remaining select agents.
Tier 1 Agents
Similar in scope with the US regulations
but with more severe penalties for noncompliance
CHOICES:
Singapore’s Biological Agents and Toxins Act, Japan - Infectious Disease Control Law, South Korea - Act on Prevention of Infectious Diseases in 2005, Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN)
Singapore’s Biological Agents and Toxins Act
Amended to require institutions that work with listed “highly dangerous pathogens” to implement laboratory biosafety and biosecurity requirements to prevent the loss, theft, diversion, release, or misuse of these agents.
CHOICES:
Singapore’s Biological Agents and Toxins Act, Japan - Infectious Disease Control Law, South Korea - Act on Prevention of Infectious Diseases in 2005, Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN)
South Korea - Act on Prevention of Infectious Diseases in 2005
Established four schedules of select agents that are subject to different reporting and handling requirement for possession, transport and other activities
CHOICES:
Singapore’s Biological Agents and Toxins Act, Japan - Infectious Disease Control Law, South Korea - Act on Prevention of Infectious Diseases in 2005, Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN)
Japan - Infectious Disease Control Law
Intended to maintain a biorisk management system among diverse organizations and set out performance-based requirements with the exclusion of guidance for implementing a national biosafety system
CHOICES:
Singapore’s Biological Agents and Toxins Act, Japan - Infectious Disease Control Law, South Korea - Act on Prevention of Infectious Diseases in 2005, Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN)
Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN)
To address concerns on biosafety guidance for research and health laboratories, issues on risk assessment and guidance to commission and certify laboratories and includes information on the different levels of containment laboratories (Biosafety levels 1-4)
Laboratory Biosafety Manual - 3rd edition
To ensure “an adequate level of protection in the field of safe transfer, handling, and use of living modified organisms (LMOS) resulting from modern biotechnology.”
CHOICES:
National Biosafety Framework (NBF), Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB), DOH Administrative Order No. 2007- 0027, National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines (NCBP)
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB)
Established under E.O. 430 series of 1990 that has the procedures for evaluation of proposals with biosafety concerns
CHOICES:
National Biosafety Framework (NBF), Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB), DOH Administrative Order No. 2007- 0027, National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines (NCBP)
National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines (NCBP)
Combination of policy, legal, administrative, and technical instruments developed to attain the objective of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety which the Philippines signed on May 24, 2000
CHOICES:
National Biosafety Framework (NBF), Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB), DOH Administrative Order No. 2007- 0027, National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines (NCBP)
National Biosafety Framework (NBF)