Biosafety addresses the safe handling and containment of hazardous biological materials
- Infectious agents
- Recombinant and synthetic nucleic acids
- Biological toxins
Goal - Protection of humans, animals, plants, and the environment
Academic research areas involving biosafety – it’s not just microbiology!
- Biomedical Sciences
- Biology –lab and field work
- Environmental Sciences
- Chemistry and biochemistry
- Engineering fields
- Human and animal clinical and diagnostic laboratories
- Any work involving microbes, rDNA technology, human and NHP materials, zoonotic agents
