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