Lesson 6: Basic Concepts on Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity Flashcards
(LAI)
Laboratory Acquired Infections
became the first scientific director (which eventually became Fort Detrick)?
Ira L. Baldwin
who designed modifications for biosafety at Camp Derrick?
Newell A. Johnson
(ABSA)
American Biological Safety Association
who described the use of mechanical pipettors to prevent laboratory-acquired infections in 1907 and 1908?
Arnold Wedum
a pharmaceutical company in Pennsylvania developed a ventilated cabinet to prevent infection from ?
mycobacterium tubeculosis
(CDC)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(SRCVB VECTOR)
State Reasearch Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector
CDC published the?
Classification of Ethiological Agents on the Basis of Hazard
(NIH)
National Institutes of Health
NIH of the United States published the?
NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules
WHO’s first edition of?
Laboratory Biosafety Manual (1983)
CDC and NIH’s jointly-published first edition of the?
Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (1984)
Who adopted the administative role off ensuring that the proper equipment and facility controls are practices?
Biosafety officers
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?
Arnold Wedum
In 1966, the US government enacted the ______to monitor the transfer of a select list of biological agents from one facility to another.
Select Agent Regulations
Slightly after the terrorist attacks and the anthrax attacks of 2001, also known as?
Amerithax
Singapore’s ____is similar in scope with the US regulations but with more severe penalties for noncompliance?
Biological Agents and Toxins Act
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.
Act on Prevention Infectious Diseases
In Japan, the _______ was recently amended under Japan’s Ministy of Health Labor, and Welfare.
Infectious Disease Control Law
(CEN)
Comite Europeen de Normalisation
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
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB)
(LMOs)
Living Modified Organisms
established E.O. 430 series of 1990 was formed on the advocacy efforts of scientists?
The new National Committee on Biosafety of the Phillippines (NCBP)
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.
National Biosafety Framework (NBF)
also issued Administrative Order No.8 to set in place policies on the importantion and release of plants products derived from modern technology.
Department of Agirculture (DA)
together with NCBP, formulated guidelines in the assessment of the impacts on health posed by modern biotechnology and its applications.
Department of Health (DOH)
a regional profesional society for biosafety and biosecurity founded in 1984.
American Biological Safety Association (ABSA)
a group founded in 2005 that act as a professional society for biosafety professionals in the Asia-Pacific region.
Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association (A-PBA)
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.
European Biological Safety Association (EBSA)
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.
Phillipine Biosafety and Biosecurity Association (PhBBA)
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.
Biological Risk Association Philippines (BRAP)
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.
biological safety cabinet
the orgins of the biosafety is rooted
US biological weapons program
BRAP goes by the tagline
assess, mitigate, monitor
In 1966 , Wedum and microbiologist _____, colleagues at Fort Detrick, analyzed multiple epidemiological studies of laboratory- based outbreaks?
Morton Reitman
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.
Charles Baldwin
