American Biological Safety Association

The American Biological Safety Association promotes biosafety as a scientific discipline and senses the growing needs of biosafety professionals throughout the world. It is a professional association that represents the interests and needs of practitioners of biological safety, and provides a fomm for the continued and timely exchange of biosafety information. 

American Biological Safety Association (ABSA), 277 American Board of hidustrial Hygiene (ABIH), 277 American Borate Co., 216 American Carbon Society (ACS), 267 American Chemical Society (ACS), 267 American Chemistry Council (ACC), 267 American Clu ome Chemicals hic., 216... 

I. Kurane, in Anthology VI Arthropod Borne Diseases, J. Y. Richmond (Ed.), American Biological Safety Association, Illinois, 2003, 63-71. 

American Biological Safety Association. AB5A Biosecurity Task Force White Paper Understanding Biosecurity. Mundelein, IL The Association, 2003. 

American Biological Safety Association—A professional association for the exchange of bio-safety information. 

Leukopenia as an early sign of occupational disease. Read before the XXVII Biological Safety Conference, American Biological Safety Association, Raleigh, NC. 

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the analytical methods that are available for detecting and/or measuring and monitoring lead in environmental media and in biological samples. The intent is not to provide an exhaustive list of analytical methods that could be used to detect and quantify lead. Rather, the intention is to identify well-established methods that are used as the standard methods of analysis. Many of the analytical methods used to detect lead in environmental samples are the methods approved by federal organizations such as EPA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Other methods presented in this chapter are those that are approved by groups such as the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) and the American Public Health Association (APHA). Additionally, analytical methods are included that refine previously used methods to obtain lower detection limits, and/or to improve accuracy, precision, and selectivity. 

The eight-hour time-weighted average concentration specified for workroom air selected from the 1986-1987 Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices as adopted by the American Conference of Governmental Indnstrial Hygienists the Recommended Standards for Occnpational Exposme set forth in the July 1985 summary of the National Institnte for Occnpational Safety and Health Recommendations for Occupational Health Standards or the 1986 Workplace Environmental Exposure Levels set forth by the American Indnstrial Hygiene Association. 

Fink, R., Liberman, D.F., Murphy, K. et al. Biological safety cahinets, decontamination or sterihzation with paraformaldehyde. American Industrial Hygiene Association 49(6) 277-279, 1988. 

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