Perform a lab risk assessment to evaluate and identify what significant hazards may be present in a laboratory area. Workers are required to be given appropriate information, instruction and training ...

This session will review and describe the basic steps of a biosafety risk assessment for clinical laboratories. The risk of exposure to infectious agents exists in every clinical laboratory.

On a sunny September morning in 2011, at a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta, virologist Ron Fouchier made an announcement that shook the scientific world. His lab, he said, had taken ...

Among a group of more than 52,000 people, 36% were diagnosed with newly identified hyperlipidemia, diabetes and/or chronic kidney disease during employer-sponsored laboratory testing as part of health ...

The US government has underestimated the risk that livestock will be exposed to microbes escaping from a proposed high-security laboratory for studying animal diseases, an independent review panel has ...

A new report examining how a national research laboratory manages its sensitive and high-risk property has found that officials didn’t properly account for or classify their inventories for items ...