Advisory committees 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. 

The TCR, published by ERA in 1989, requires all public water systems to monitor for the presence of coliforms (measured as total coliforms ) in their distribution systems. Coliforms serve as indicators of many enteric pathogens, and are therefore useful in determining the vulnerability of a system to fecal contamination. In reviewing microbial risks with a federal advisory committee, ERA determined that the available data on distribution system risks warranted further analysis. Potential revisions being considered m lead to the establishment of requirements to address the quality of finished water in distribution systems (ERA, 2004d). 

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). 

Oakland University established its Office of Environmental Health and Safety (EH S) in February 1990. It was not until 1991 however, with the advent of the Bloodbome Pathogens and Laboratory Right-to-Know Standards, that EH S began to interact directly with faculty regarding EH S issues (and the regulatory requirements thereof). The relationship developed slowly, and not without faculty resistance. The Laboratory Safety Committee, LSC (chaired by the Director of EH S), was established as a non-governing (advisory) body by OU s President in 1994, in response to a laboratory fire. LSC representation/distribution appears in Table I. 

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