The Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines: 3rd Edition 2004

Editorial Committee

Maureen Best
Director
Office of Laboratory Security
Health Canada
Ottawa, ON

Mary Louise Graham
Chief, Biosafety Division
Office of Laboratory Security
Health Canada
Ottawa, ON

Roland Leitner
Environmental Safety Officer
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB

Marc Ouellette
Professeur, Centre hospitalier de l'université Laval
Québec, QC

Ken Ugwu
Senior Biocontainment Engineer
Office of Laboratory Security
Health Canada
Ottawa, ON

Contributors

The development of the 3^rd edition of the Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines has been made possible thanks to the contributions of the following individuals:

Harvey Artsob
Chief, National Laboratory for Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens
Canadian Science Centre for Human & Animal Health
Winnipeg, MB

James Campbell
Chair, University Biosafety
Committee
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON

Wayne Conlan
Research Officer
National Research Council
Ottawa, ON

Pamela Dunn
Research Scientist
Aventis Pasteur Ltd.
North York, ON

Sandra Fry
Director, Biohazard Containment and Safety Division, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Ottawa, ON

Fred George
(Large Scale Production)
Alberta Research Council
Edmonton, AB

Andrew Graham
(Large Scale Production)
Aventis Pasteur Limited
Toronto, ON

David Groves
Service of Medical Microbiology
St. Joseph's Hospital
Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON

Toni Hays
(Large Scale Production)
Apotex Fermentation Inc.
Winnipeg, MB

Marianne Heisz
Chief, Bioterrorism and Emergency Response Division
Office of Laboratory Security
Health Canada
Ottawa, ON

Jean Joly
Directeur, Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC

George Khachatourians
(Large Scale Production)
Department of Applied
Microbiology and Food Science
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK

Paul Langevin
(Technical Advisor)
Biocontainment Services
Kanata, ON

Louise Linarez
Technical Supervisor
Provincial Laboratory of Public Health
Edmonton, AB

Jim Orzechowski
(Technical Advisor)
Chief Executive Officer
Smith Carter Architects and
Engineers Inc.
Winnipeg, MB

Mark Parrington
Principal Research Scientist and
Section Head
Microbiology
Aventis Pasteur Limited
North York, ON

Bruce Peat
(Technical Advisor)
General Manager  
H.E.P.A. Filter Services Inc.
Concord, ON

Anthony Ridgway
(Large Scale Production)
Therapeutic Products Program
Health Canada
Ottawa, ON

Richard Stokes
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Lee Thompson
Director of Biosafety and Institutional Containment Resources
The University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX, U.S.A.

Stefan Wagener
Scientific Director
Office of Biosafety and Environment
Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health
Winnipeg, MB

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge and thank Danielle Plouffe and Jasmine Boudreau for their clerical assistance in the preparation of this document, Andréanne Bonhomme for technical assistance, and the Scientific Publication and Multimedia Services for producing the document.

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