African Biological Safety Association
The African Biological Safety Association, AfBSA, has just recently gone online with its newly-developed website: www.afbsa.org. AfbSA was born on 31 May 2007 and conducted a first train-the-trainer course just recently (March 2009). A-PBA warmly welcomes our sister biosafety organisation AfBSA!
12th Conference of the European Biosafety Association
15 June 2009 Pre-Conference Workshops
16 - 17 June 2009 Conference
Stockholm / Sweden
[Conference Website]
H5N1 Laboratory Mishap in Czechia.
A laboratory incident in a Czech research laboratory involving highly pathogenic H5N1 birdflu virus points at weaknesses in proper identification of strains, and laboratory operations and supervision.
A-PBA Biosafety Conference 27 - 30 April 2009 in Manila, The Philippines
BACAC Website is live
The Biosafety Association for Central Asia and Caucasus (BACAC) has got its own website available in English and Russian [www.bacac.org].
