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Download Complete Issue (PDF 4.9MB)

President's Page(PDF 32KB)

Guest Editorial

Global Biosafety: Now and Tomorrow(PDF 44KB)
TeckMean Chua, Maureen Ellis, and Barbara Johnson

Letters to the Editors

IBC Quality Improvement(PDF 192KB)
Timothy B. Muller, Douglas M. Stewart, and Kurt B. Nolte

Regulatory News

Demystifying Department of Commerce Export Controls for the Biosafety Professional(PDF 44KB)
Kimberly Orr and Betty Lee

Articles

A Study of Air-tightness in Australian High-level Bio-containment Facilities(PDF 312KB)
Gordon B. McGurk

Microbial Decontamination of a 65-Room New Pharmaceutical Research Facility(PDF 1.1MB)
Mark A. Czarneski

In-house BSL-3 User Training: Development and Implementation of Programme at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore(PDF 376KB)
Tin Tun, Alex Law Sai-Kit, and Richard J. Sugrue

Special Features

Ask the Experts—Pre-filters—When and Where to Use Them(PDF 40KB)
John H. Keene

Biosafety Tips—Is the Community at Risk to Exposure from Microbes in the Lab?(PDF 156KB)
Karen B. Byers

Capsule—Recommendations for the Selection and Use of Respirators and Protective Clothing for Protection Against Biological Agents(PDF 364KB)
Ed Krisiunas

International News

EBSA News—Letter from Europe(PDF 576KB)
Heather Sheeley

BIOSAFETY-EUROPE: Coordination, Harmonization and Exchange of Biosafety and Biosecurity Practices Within a Pan-European Network(PDF 32KB)
Kathrin Summermatter

ABSA News

New ABSA Members for 2009(PDF 36KB)

Calendar of Events(PDF 208KB)

 

About the Cover

Today we have a wealth of global biological safety associations and working groups to include: African Biosafety Association, American Biological Safety Association, ABSA-Canada, Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association, Biosafety Association of Central Asia and the Caucuses, Biosafety Association of Pakistan, European Biosafety Association, Israeli Biological Safety Association, Japanese Biosafety Association, National Biosafety Association of Brazil, Philippines Biosafety and Biosecurity Association, Taiwan Biological Safety Association, and the Thailand Biosafety Working Group. Several other countries are in the process of formalizing biosafety associations as this journal goes to print. The formation of these associations plays a vital role for networking and mentoring opportunities of biosafety professionals worldwide. The world is now faced with fast moving pandemics (H1N1), unprecedented rates of global research collaboration, and the construction of numerous high containment laboratories. It becomes increasingly important to find new and better ways to provide more, and more effective, training and mentoring capabilities to biosafety professionals worldwide to promote biosafety and biosecurity and grow the profession to meet global needs. See the Guest Editorial on page 66 to learn more about biosafety on an international level.