Guiding Principles for Biosafety Governance: Ensuring Institutional Compliance with Biosafety, Biocontainment, and Laboratory Biosecurity Regulations and Guidelines

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. 09/2017 This 19-page document provides guiding principles and best practices for ensuring institutions have appropriate organizational and governance structures in place to ensure compliance with biosafety, biocontainment, and laboratory biosecurity regulations and guidelines. It provides an overview of the federal regulations, requirements, and guidelines that pertain to biosafety and biosecurity in the U.S., and a description of some of the voluntary laboratory accreditation systems and other standards that relate to, or incorporate, biosafety and biosecurity oversight. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - October 6, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news