Biosecurity
With biosecurity is, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the discipline called, dealing with the safe handling and containment of infectious microorganisms and harmful biological (including genetic engineering employed) materials. The WHO counts as biosafety the containment principles, technologies and practices that are intended to prevent contact with pathogens and toxins and their release.
Possible accidents in this area
In a handling error in a laboratory for the production of biological warfare agents in Sverdlovsk , powdery anthrax spores were released into the environment in March 1979, killing over 100 people.
literature
- Diane O. Fleming, Debra Long Hunt: Biological safety: principles and practices . ASM Press, 4th edition, 2006. ISBN 1555813399
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biosafety vs. Biosecurity: What is the Difference ?. June 28, 2009 ( Memento from November 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Biosafety, World Health Organization, 2010. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ken Alibek and Stephen Handelman: Biohazard: The chilling true story of the largest covered biological weapons program in the world - Told from inside by the man who ran it. 1999, Delta (2000), ISBN 0-385-33496-6 .
