Biosafety Level 3 definition

Biosafety Level 3 or “BSL-3 Materials" shall mean biological materials with a potential for respiratory transmission and which may cause serious and potential lethal infection upon exposure but for which there is available vaccines or treatments. Novel (new) influenza viruses and tuberculosis are representative of microorganisms assigned to this containment level. All procedures for Biosafety Level 2 also apply to this category.
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Examples of Biosafety Level 3 in a sentence

  • Require businesses handling biohazardous materials to certify that they use high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters or substantially equivalent devices on all exhaust from Biosafety Level 3 laboratories unless they demonstrate that exhaust from the Biosafety Level 3 laboratories would not pose a substantial health and safety hazards to the public or the environment.

  • Additionally, NCFST has a Biosafety Level 3 pilot plant and laboratory, as well as a select agent laboratory to conduct studies with Clostridium botulinum and other select agents.

  • Licensee shall not conduct any activities which might cause the License Space or any portion of the Premises to be considered Biosafety Level 3 or Biosafety Level 4 laboratory space as defined by the 1999 NIH/CDC guideline “Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories” as such guidelines may be supplemented, updated or replaced from time to time.

  • PIADC operates a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facility working primarily with high consequence foreign animal diseases.

  • The Laboratory Use permitted hereunder shall not exceed that of a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory as specified by the National Institutes of Health from time to time or any equivalent successor designation (and Subtenant shall certify from time to time upon the reasonable request of Sublandlord that the Laboratory Use in the Subleased Premises does not exceed Biosafety Level 3).

  • The Division also houses four scientific core facilities, including the Biosafety Level 3 Facility, Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorting Core, Imaging Core, and μQUANT Assay Core.