Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens

Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (1984), Hazards and Precaution for Handling of Blood Borne Pathogens, HHG, Washington, D.C. 

World Health Organization (WHO) identify Biosafety Levels 1,2, 3, and 4 and in the United Kingdom the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) categorizes Laboratory Containment Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 (4-6). All share the same objective to identify biosafety or laboratory containment levels that minimize the risk to the laboratory worker, to the outside community, and to the environment. At Biosafety/Laboratory Containment Level 2, exposure risks to the laboratory worker arise mainly from contact through a contaminated work environment. As the risk of airborne infection increases, Biosafety/ Laboratory Containment Level 3 provides facilities to prevent aerosol transmission. Additional safeguards to protect the outside community and the environment are found at Biosafety/Laboratory Containment Level 4, which is... 

The Acinetobacter strain from which CHMO is derived is a Class II pathogen as defined by the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP), and hence, may only be handled in suitably equipped microbiological facilities. One solution to... 

Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, Categorization of Pathogens According to Hazard and Categories of Containment, Second edition, HMSO, London, 1990, pp. 68. 

Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (1990). Categorisation of pathogens according to hazard and categories of containment (2nd edn). HMSO, London. 

Conventional pathogenic organisms guidelines for small-scale or laboratory use have been issued by the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) in the UK and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the USA, together with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 

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