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    General Biosafety References

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, 5th ed. (2009)

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Guidelines for Biosafety Laboratory Competency, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 60 Supplement (2011)

    Biosafety Risk Assessment References

    Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Biosafety Checklist: Developing a Culture of Biosafety (2015)

    Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Clinical Laboratory Biosafety Risk Management Program Assessment Checklist (2016)

    Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Risk Assessment Best Practices and Examples (2016)

    Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) Biological Risk Assessment Worksheet

    Risk Assessment for Working with Infectious Agents in the Biological Laboratory (Richard Knudsen, 2001). Applied Biosafety, 6th ed.

    Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH)/Wisconsin Clinical Laboratory Technical Advisory Group (WCLTAG) Laboratory Biosafety: Performing a Risk Assessment (September 2015)

    Biosafety Contact

    Biosafety Officer

    Pennsylvania Department of Health
    Bureau of Laboratories
    110 Pickering Way
    Exton, PA 19341-1310

    Phone: 610-280-3464
    Fax: 610-450-1932
    E-mail: madjei@pa.gov