BASIC CONCEPTS ON LABORATORY BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY Flashcards
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Other contributors outside the United States included Arnold Wedum who described the use of mechanical pipettors to prevent laboratory-acquired infections.
1907 and 1908
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A pharmaceutical company in Pennsylvania developed a ventilated cabinet to prevent infection from mycobacterium tuberculosis.
1909
This was effective before because it could spread easily since there were no cures for this type of disease and no preventive measures.
Biological Weapon
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Laboratory biosafety and biosecurity traces its history in North America and Western Europe.
1942
The origin of biosafety is rooted in the?
US biological weapon program.
_____________ became the first scientific director of Camp Detrick (which eventually became Fort Detrick), and was tasked with establishing the biological weapons program for the purposes of enabling the United States to respond if attacked by such weapons.
Ira L. Baldwin
After _______, Camp Detrick was designated a permanent installation for biological research and World War.
WW2
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Arnold Wedum, director of Industrial Health and Safety at the US Army Biological Research Laboratories, 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.
1944
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Wedum and microbiologist Morton Reitman, colleagues at Fort Detrick, analyzed multiple epidemiological studies of laboratory-based outbreaks.
1966
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At the height of increasing mortality and morbidity due to smallpox, WHO aggressively pursued the eradication of the virus (College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2014).
1967
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The US government enacted th Select Agent Regulation to monitor the transfer of a select list of biological agents from one facility to another.
1996
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Terrorist attacks and anthrax attacks also known as Amerithrax.
2001
Anthrax happens by ___________, they put the microorganism there so when it is opened the person would inhale it and it will spread.
snail mail
The ___________________ then required specific security measures for any facility in the United States that used or stored one or more agents on the new, longer list of agents (Bioterorism).
Revised Select Agent Regulations
Other Countries also relatively implemented and prescribed biosecurity regulations for bioscience facilities.
Singapore’s Biological Agents and Toxins Act (Republic of Singapore 2005) - same scope with US regulations but with more severe penalties for noncompliance.
South Korea: Act on Prevention of Infectious Diseases in 2005 - 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.
Japan: Infectious Disease Control Law - recently amended under Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare.
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The Danish Parliament passed a law that gives the Minister of Health and Prevention the authority to regulate the possession, manufacture, use, storage,sale,purchase,or other transfer, distribution, transport, and disposal of listed biological agents.
2008
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The Office of the President promulgated E.O. 514 establishing the National Biosafety Framework (NBF), which prescribes the guidelines for its implementation, strengthening the National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines.
March 17,2006
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The NPF is a combination of policy, legal, administrative, and technical instruments developed to attain the objective of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety which the Philippines signed.
May 24, 2000
a regional professional society for biosafety and biosecurity founded in 1984. Promotes biosafety and provides guidance to its members on the regulatory regime.
American Biological Safety Association (ABSA)
a group founded in 2005 that acts as a professional society for biosecurity professionals in the Asia-Pacific region. Members: Singapore, Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association (A-PBA)
a non-profit organization founded in June 1996. Aims to provide a forum for discussions and debates on issues of concern.
European Biological Safety Association (EBSA)
created by a multidisciplinary team with members coming from the health and education sectors. National Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity Action Plan Task Force established as per DPO No. 2006-2500 dated September 15, 2006. A long term goal of the association is to assist the DA and DOH in their efforts to create a national policy and implement a plan for laboratory biosafety and biosecurity.
Philippine Biosafety and Biosecurity Association (PhBBA)
a non-government and a 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. Tagline: “assess, mitigate, monitor.”
Biological Risk Association Philippines (BRAP)
The WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual (LBM) defines _________ as “the containment principles, technologies, and practices that are implemented to prevent unintentional exposure to pathogens and toxins of their accidental release.”
biosafety
