Lesson 6: Basic Concepts on Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity

Question 1

(LAI)

Answer 1

Laboratory Acquired Infections

Question 2

became the first scientific director (which eventually became Fort Detrick)?

Answer 2

Ira L. Baldwin

Question 3

who designed modifications for biosafety at Camp Derrick?

Answer 3

Newell A. Johnson

Question 4

(ABSA)

Answer 4

American Biological Safety Association

Question 5

who described the use of mechanical pipettors to prevent laboratory-acquired infections in 1907 and 1908?

Answer 5

Arnold Wedum

Question 6

a pharmaceutical company in Pennsylvania developed a ventilated cabinet to prevent infection from ?

Answer 6

mycobacterium tubeculosis

Question 7

(CDC)

Answer 7

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 8

(SRCVB VECTOR)

Answer 8

State Reasearch Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector

Question 9

CDC published the?

Answer 9

Classification of Ethiological Agents on the Basis of Hazard

Question 10

(NIH)

Answer 10

National Institutes of Health

Question 11

NIH of the United States published the?

Answer 11

NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules

Question 12

WHO’s first edition of?

Answer 12

Laboratory Biosafety Manual (1983)

Question 13

CDC and NIH’s jointly-published first edition of the?

Answer 13

Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (1984)

Question 14

Who adopted the administative role off ensuring that the proper equipment and facility controls are practices?

Answer 14

Biosafety officers

Question 15

director of Industrial Health and safety at the US Army Biological Research Laboratories in 1944, was recognized as one of the pioneers of biosafety that provided the foundation for evaluating the risk of handling infections microoraganisms and for recognizing biological hazards and developing practices, equipment, and facility safeguars for their control?

Answer 15

Arnold Wedum

Question 16

In 1966, the US government enacted the ______to monitor the transfer of a select list of biological agents from one facility to another.

Answer 16

Select Agent Regulations

Question 17

Slightly after the terrorist attacks and the anthrax attacks of 2001, also known as?

Answer 17

Amerithax

Question 18

Singapore’s ____is similar in scope with the US regulations but with more severe penalties for noncompliance?

Answer 18

Biological Agents and Toxins Act

Question 19

In South Korea, the act on ______ in 2005 was amended to require institutions that work with listed “highly dangerous pathogens” to implement laboratory biosafety and biosecurity requirements to prevent loss, theft , diversion, release, or misuse of these agents.

Answer 19

Act on Prevention Infectious Diseases

Question 20

In Japan, the _______ was recently amended under Japan’s Ministy of Health Labor, and Welfare.

Answer 20

Infectious Disease Control Law

Question 21

(CEN)

Answer 21

Comite Europeen de Normalisation

Question 22

made effective in 2003 which applies to the 168 member-countries provides an international regulatory framework to endure ‘an adequate level of protection in the field of safe transfer, hadling, and use of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology

Answer 22

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB)

Question 23

(LMOs)

Answer 23

Living Modified Organisms

Question 24

established E.O. 430 series of 1990 was formed on the advocacy efforts of scientists?

Answer 24

The new National Committee on Biosafety of the Phillippines (NCBP)

Question 25

On March 17, 2006, the Office of the President promul gated E.O. 514 establishing the ________, which prescribes the guidelines for its implementation, strenthening the National Committee on Biosafety of the Phllippines.

Answer 25

National Biosafety Framework (NBF)

Question 26

also issued Administrative Order No.8 to set in place policies on the importantion and release of plants products derived from modern technology.

Answer 26

Department of Agirculture (DA)

Question 27

together with NCBP, formulated guidelines in the assessment of the impacts on health posed by modern biotechnology and its applications.

Answer 27

Department of Health (DOH)

Question 28

a regional profesional society for biosafety and biosecurity founded in 1984.

Answer 28

American Biological Safety Association (ABSA)

Question 29

a group founded in 2005 that act as a professional society for biosafety professionals in the Asia-Pacific region.

Answer 29

Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association (A-PBA)

Question 30

a non-profit organization founded in june 1996, that aims to provide a forum for discussions and debates on issues of concern and to represent those who working in the field of biosafety.

Answer 30

European Biological Safety Association (EBSA)

Question 31

created by a multi-desciplinary team with members coming from the health and education sectors as well as indivuals from the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the goventment.

Answer 31

Phillipine Biosafety and Biosecurity Association (PhBBA)

Question 32

a non-government and 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 the technology sectors throughout the country.

Answer 32

Biological Risk Association Philippines (BRAP)

Question 33

Moreover, ventilated cabinets, early progenitors to the nearly ubiquitous engineered control now known as the_____,were also first documented outside of the US biological weapons program.

Answer 33

biological safety cabinet

Question 34

the orgins of the biosafety is rooted

Answer 34

US biological weapons program

Question 35

BRAP goes by the tagline

Answer 35

assess, mitigate, monitor

Question 36

In 1966 , Wedum and microbiologist _____, colleagues at Fort Detrick, analyzed multiple epidemiological studies of laboratory- based outbreaks?

Answer 36

Morton Reitman

Question 37

In 1966,____an environmental health engineer working for the Dow Chemical Company containment systems products, created the biohazard symbol used in labelling biological materials carrying significant helath risks.

Answer 37

Charles Baldwin