Keywords laboratory safety

Safe laboratory management of prions and proteopathic seeds

The Lancet Neurology

Mead, Simon et al.
The Lancet Neurology, Volume 20, Issue 12, 981

The UK’s Advisory Committee for Dangerous Pathogens convened a subgroup to revise guidance for safe working with prions and to consider whether any measures were needed for work with proteopathic seeds, involving experts from research laboratories for prion and other neurodegenerative diseases, infectious disease specialists, pathologists, veterinarians, and health and safety experts.

keywords: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), CWD, laboratory safety, Prion Diseases

Laboratory biosafety guidance related to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Interim guidance, 11 March 2024 (NEW 4/3, Website, Regulatory)

WHO

11 March 2024

The latest update (11 March 2024) includes the following addition and revision:

depending on the local risk assessment, less stringent risk control measures for virus isolation and propagation of currently circulating strains;
biosafety aspects of waste management;
detailed considerations for transportation requirements; and
reference to the 4th edition Laboratory biosafety manual for GMPP (good microbiological practice and procedure) and to the Risk assessment monograph for the risk assessment template.

keywords: covid-19, epidemic, laboratory safety, pandemic, preparedness

Laboratory biosafety guidance related to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Interim guidance, 11 March 2024 (NEW 5/10, Website, Regulatory)

World Health Organization (WHO)

11 March 2024

Provides interim guidance on laboratory biosafety related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus to laboratories and stakeholders involved in COVID-19 laboratory work. This also includes the packaging and shipment requirements for sending specimens to WHO reference laboratories providing confirmatory and other testing for COVID-19.

keywords: covid-19, laboratory safety, packaging, shipping

WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual 4th edition (LBM4) (Website, Regulation/Guidance)

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual 4th edition (LBM4) are available in all UN official languages and Vietnamese: