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Biosafety is the
prevention of large-scale loss of
biological integrity,
focusing both on
ecology and
human health.
These prevention mechanisms include...
- A
biosafety level (BSL), or pathogen/protection level, is a set of
biocontainment precautions required to
isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed...
- The
Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety to the
Convention on
Biological Diversity is an
international agreement on
biosafety as a
supplement to the Convention...
- A
biosafety cabinet (BSC)—also
called a
biological safety cabinet or
microbiological safety cabinet—is an enclosed,
ventilated laboratory workspace for...
- One use of the
concept of
biocontainment is
related to
laboratory biosafety and
pertains to
microbiology laboratories in
which the
physical containment...
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Biosafety level 4 (BSL-4)
organisms are
dangerous or
exotic agents which pose high risk of life-threatening disease, aerosol-transmitted lab infections...
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diagnostic work with
clinical specimens can be done
safely at
Biosafety Level 2,
using Biosafety Level 2
practices and procedures.
Research work (including...
- 1975. It has led to an
international treaty, the
Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety, that was
adopted in 2000.
Individual countries have
developed their own...
- The
Biosafety Clearing-House is an
international mechanism that
exchanges information about the
movement of
genetically modified organisms, established...
- the work
materials from
contamination by the
surrounding environment. A
biosafety cabinet is also easily-confused with a
laminar flow cabinet, but like...
