Biosafety & Biosecurity in Science and Technology

Biosafety & biosecurity is a dynamic field requiring professional expertise due to the need to adapt to continuous developments in science and technology involving biological material and to react to ongoing changes in legal requirements.

Jenal & Partners Biosafety Consulting, registered in 2001 in Switzerland, gained its biosafety & biosecurity expertise from long term experience in research, administration and industry. We are committed to provide the life science research community and industry as well as regulatory bodies and the public with in-depth information in latest developments in science and technology, technology assessment and risk communication. We provide efficient, cost effective, high quality solutions in the design, application and management of biosafety & biosecurity measures.

Keeping you ahead of the latest developments in science and technology and in phase with internationally accepted standards in biosafety & biosecurity is our goal.

 

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Biosafety
Describes the containment principles, technologies and practices that are implemented to prevent the unintentional exposure of the workers, the community or the environment to biological materials, either during normal operations or by accident.

Biosecurity
Describes the protection, control and accountability for valuable biological materials in order to prevent their loss, theft, misuse, diversion of, unauthorized access, or intentional release.

Biological material
Any material consisting of or containing (micro)organisms such as bacteria, viruses, prions, cell cultures or parasites, including those which have been genetically modified, that may be pathogenic or otherwise hazardous to humans, animals or plants or may have an adverse effect on the environment. Biological material also includes elements issued or derived from (micro)organisms such as genetic elements, toxins or allergens.

Valuable biological materials (WHO/CDS/EPR/2006.6)
Biological materials that require (according to their owners, users, custodians, caretakers or regulators) administrative oversight, control, accountability, and specific protective and monitoring measures in laboratories to protect their economic and historical (archival) value, and/or the population from their potential to cause harm. VBM may include pathogens and toxins, as well as non-pathogenic organisms, vaccine strains, foods, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), cell components, genetic elements, and extraterrestrial samples.