Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity Quiz

Laboratory Biosecurity The protection, control, and accountability for valuable biological materials within laboratories, in order to prevent their unauthorized access, loss, theft, misuse, diversion, or intentional release. is limiting ______ to the agent/pathogen

Laboratory Biosafety The containment principles, technologies and practices that are implemented to prevent the unintentional exposure to pathogens and toxins, or their accidental release. is ______ the agent/pathogen’s access to people

History of Laboratory Biosafety 1943 o Ira L. Baldwin – first scientific director of ______ (Fort Detrick) o US President Franklin Roosevelt tasked Baldwin to establish US biological weapons program for defensive purposes during the Cold War 1969 – The biological weapons program was terminated by US President Richard Nixon After the Second World War, ______ was designated a permanent installation for biological research and development. o Newell A. Johnson – designed

(Fort Detrick) o US President Franklin Roosevelt tasked Baldwin to establish US biological weapons program for defensive purposes during the Cold War 1969 – The biological weapons program was terminated by US President Richard Nixon After the Second World War, ______ was designated a permanent installation for biological research and development. o Newell A. Johnson – designed

Camp Detrick was designated a permanent installation for biological research and development. o Newell A. Johnson – designed