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Letters laced with infectious anthrax were concurrently delivered to news media offices and the U.S Congress, alongside an ambiguously related case in Chile. The letters killed 5. Bruce Edwards Ivins [6] 2003 2003 ricin letters: Ricin: 0 0 United States: Two ricin-laden letters were found on two separate occasions between October and November 2003.
This list of laboratory biosecurity incidents includes accidental laboratory-acquired infections and laboratory releases of lethal pathogens, containment failures in or during transport of lethal pathogens, and incidents of exposure of lethal pathogens to laboratory personnel, improper disposal of contaminated waste, and/or the escape of ...
In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention[al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention[al] distortion of the research process by fabrication of data, text, hypothesis, or methods from another researcher's manuscript form or ...
A biological hazard, or biohazard, is a biological substance that poses a threat (or is a hazard) to the health of living organisms, primarily humans. This could include a sample of a microorganism, virus or toxin that can adversely affect human health. A biohazard could also be a substance harmful to other living beings. [a]
The American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) has a list of such agencies and links to their websites, [23] along with links to publications and guidance documents to assist in risk assessment, lab design and adherence to laboratory exposure control plans.
Chemical hazard – Non-biological hazards of hazardous materials; Safety engineering – Engineering discipline which assures that engineered systems provide acceptable levels of safety; Security engineering – Process of incorporating security controls into an information system; Select agent – Controlled biological agents in the United States
Autonomous Pathogen Detection System by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Autonomous Detection Systems (ADS), also called biohazard detection systems or autonomous pathogen detection systems, are designed to monitor air or water in an environment and to detect the presence of airborne or waterborne chemicals, toxins, pathogens, or other biological agents capable of causing human illness ...
The hazards of synthetic biology include biosafety hazards to workers and the public, biosecurity hazards stemming from deliberate engineering of organisms to cause harm, and hazards to the environment. The biosafety hazards are similar to those for existing fields of biotechnology, mainly exposure to pathogens and toxic chemicals; however ...