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The American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) was founded in 1984 to promote biosafety as a scientific discipline and serve the growing needs of biosafety professionals throughout the world. The Association's goals are to provide a professional association that represents the interests and needs of practitioners of biological safety, and to provide a forum for the continued and timely exchange of biosafety information.

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On this official website of the American Biological Safety Association, you can find information about the ABSA Annual Conference, Courses, the Certified Biological Safety Professional (CBSP) credential, the Registered Biosafety Professional (RBP) credential, Anthology of Biosafety series, membership information and application, a Risk Group database, and Applied Biosafety: Journal of the American Biological Safety Association. There is also other important biosafety information on this site including: Resources & Tools, Biosafety Links, Biosafety Listserv, White Papers, Job Opportunities, and more. Please e-mail ABSA@absa.org if you have any questions or would like additional information.



51st Annual Biological Safety Conference

ABSAConference.org

October 19-22, 2008
John Ascuaga's Nugget, Reno, NV

AWARD NOMINATIONS





ABSA Would Like to thank the
Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation
for their Generous Support

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ABSA/OSHA Fact Sheets
Select Agent Disease(PDF 368KB)
Zoonotic(PDF 480KB)

ABSA Position Paper on Accreditation of High Containment Laboratories(PDF 24KB)

NRM Application Deadline
August 1, 2008

ABSA Honor Awards - 2008 Nomination Form

VIDEO: Working at Animal Biosafety Levels 1, 2 and 3

ABSA Mentoring Process

Archived Announcements

Upcoming Events

August 24 - 29
Emory University BSL4 Science and Safety Training

September 2-5
Laboratory Biosafety Training Program (LBTP)

Sept. 15-19
National Biosafety & Biocontainment Training

September 15-19
Laboratory Biosafety Training Program (LBTP)

Also Coming Up:

Principles & Practices of Biosafety
August 4-8, 2008, Rochester, NY

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