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Laboratory Biosecurity Handbook (Hardcover)
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Laboratory Biosecurity Handbook (Hardcover)
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By achieving a delicate balance between systems and practices,
proper laboratory biosecurity reduces the risk of legitimate
bioscience facilities becoming sources of pathogens and toxins for
malicious use. Effective design and implementation of laboratory
biosecurity depends on cooperation among individuals from diverse
communities, including scientists, technicians, policy makers,
security engineers, and law enforcement officials. Providing
guidance to the broad international community, Laboratory
Biosecurity Handbook addresses the objectives of biosecurity and
the ways in which they overlap or conflict with those of biosafety.
The book describes the risks of working with dangerous pathogens
and toxins in the current era of international terrorism. The
authors characterize the global spread of legitimate biotechnology
and relate it to the rise of transnational terrorism, emphasizing
the need for biosecurity measures even in legitimate bioscience.
The book discusses biosecurity risk assessment-a practical
methodology that allows laboratory management and
biosafety/biosecurity officers to analyze and determine the level
of risk, and serves as a basis for managing those risks. The book
includes questionnaires that can assist the process of collecting
data for a biosecurity vulnerability assessment, example standard
operating procedures and memoranda of understanding, and other
useful reference material. Addressing a variety of operating
environments and the particular challenges they face when designing
and implementing laboratory biosecurity, this book can assist
bioscience facilities ranging from the large to the small, from
those that focus on diagnosis or vaccine development, to those only
minimally involved with infectious diseases. The detailed
recommendations help avoid a "one-size-fits-all" approach to
security and save limited resources. The book shows institutions
how to develop and implement a biosecurity plan, and helps ensure
that all components are included in the overall system, whether
existing or new.
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