BIOSECURITY AND BIOSAFETY PART 1 Flashcards
protecting people from dangerous pathogens
Laboratory Biosafety
protecting pathogens from dangerous people
Laboratory Biosecurity
Charles Baldwin
• Creation of biohazard symbol
1966
US biological weapons program ordered by _____
US President Franklin Roosevelt (1943)
Made bullets with toxins
1943
1st scientific director of
Camp Detrick
Ira L. Baldwin
• Lab in Camp Detrick - used to test dispersal of biological agents in aerosol
• Newell Johnson – modification of biosafety
➢ Class III safety cabinets & laminar flow hoods
1949
Army surgeon appointed a medical liaison officer to the biological warfare labs
1950
Army Chemical Corps & Army Medical
Department – medical defense research against biological weapons
1953
US Biological Weapons Program was
terminated by President Richard Nixon
1969
Father of microbial biosafety
Arnold Wedum
mechanical pipettors to prevent lab- acquired infections
1907-1908
Wedum & Morton Reitman – multiple
epidemiological studies of lab-based outbreaks
1966
small pox era
1967
– CDC published the Classification of Etiological Agents on
the Basis of Hazard;
1974
US NIH published the NIH Guidelines for Research
Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules;
1976
WHO’s 1st edition of LABORATORY BIOSAFETY MANUAL
1983
CDC & NIH’s jointly published first edition of the
BIOSAFETY IN MICROBIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL
LABORATORIES
1984
American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) was
founded;
1984
US government enacted the Select Agent Regulations to
monitor the transfer of a select list of biological agents from one
facility to another.
1996
Anthrax attack in US (known as Amerithrax);
2001
revision of Select Agent Regulations sought to address the
creation of 2 tiers of select agents.
2012
materials that pose the greatest risk of deliberate misuse
tier 1
materials that pose the greatest risk of deliberate misuse
tier 1
3rd Edition of the Laboratory Biosafety Manual
2004
similar scope with the US regulation but with more severe penalties for noncompliance
Singapore: Biological Agents and Toxins Act (2005
institutions that work with listed “highly dangerous pathogens” to implement laboratory biosafety & biosecurity requirements
South Korea: Act on Prevention of Infectious Diseases (2005)
four schedules of select agents subject to different reporting & handling requirements
Japan: Infectious Disease Control Law
Canadian containment level (CL) 3 and 4 facilities that work with risk group 3/4 are required to undergo certification
Canada
Minister of Health and Prevention – has authority to regulate possession, manufacture, use, storage, sale, purchase or other transfer, distribution, transport & disposal of listed biological agents
Denmark
ensure “an adequate level of protection in the field of safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms (LMOs)
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) in 2003
National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines (NCBP)
- organizational structure for biosafety
E.O. 430, s. 1990
National Biosafety
Framework (NBF)
Guidelines strengthening the NCBP
E.O. 514
March 17, 2006
requires clinical laboratories to ensure policy guidelines on laboratory biosafety & biosecurity
DOH A.O. No. 2007-0027
by Department of Agriculture (DA)
• policies on importation of plants from
modern biotechnology
A.O. No. 8
➔created by a multidisciplinary team with members coming from
the health and education sectors as well as individuals from the
executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
➔Long term goal: to assist the DA and DOH in their efforts to create
national policy and implement plans for laboratory biosafety and
biosecurity.
PHILIPPINE BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY ASSOCIATION
PHBBA
➔Non-government, non-profit association that works to serve the
emergent concerns of biological risk management in various
professional fields such as in the health, agriculture, and
technology sectors throughout the country.
BIORISK ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (BRAP)
➔emphasizes the importance of multi-sectoral engagement and
support, with the Center’s programs aligned with the programs of
biosafety and biosecurity of various departments in both local and
national government and private institutions.
NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER FOR BIOSAFETY AND
BIOSECURITY
