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Listing BSL-3 Sites

Surely it is a fool's errand to include a list of BLS-3 labs, given that the start of this section indicates that there are over 1000 in the US alone. Why not make the list of facilities only those with BSL-4 facilities? This would be an actually possible task and would may resolve the factual inaccuracy complaint. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.51.113 (talk • contribs) 2012-08-24T14:29:56‎

I agree. This list would go on forever. BSL-3 labs are much too common to list. Artur The Third (talk) 12:07, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

I agree too. After the COVID pandemic there was a boom of BLS-2 labs upgrading to BLS-3 in Brazil, it doesn't seem to make much sense to list it all. —Arthurfragoso (talk) 01:55, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Sending or Transport of cultures or samples

To send a microbial culture or organ sample; what are the rules and regulations for sending by post/ by courier/ in-person

  • 1. Sending within country (say one university to another),
  • 2. Sending from 1 country to another,
  • 3. What kind of certification/ tickets/ stickers/ badges to stick on the parcel?
  • 4. What are safe methods to pack the samples and prepare the envelop?
  • 5. For an unidentified sample being sent for identification say for DNA isolation or PCR or sequencing, what would be the biosafety level?
  • 6. Who (person)/ which institute is eligible to send cultures and who is the authority to give a biosafety level and/or a sending ticket or certification to the parcel containing live culture/organ for being sent or transferred?
  • 7. What are instructions for bringing pathological samples from one place to another (say home to clinic/ clinic to another clinic)

2409:4060:2017:F88E:A5E0:8244:A65:A7F2 (talk) 11:17, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Safety concerns

The section “safety concerns” only discusses issues in United States. Should it be expanded to include other countries or rephrased/rewritten to simply state to the effect of “concerns have been raised in the United States that there is no agency responsible for oversight “ Sarboss (talk) 21:30, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

yes. here is a good source: King’s College London. Mapping Maximum Biological Containment Labs Globally. Filipa Lentzos and Gregory Koblentz. May 2021.--Empiricus (talk) 10:48, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Plagiarism in the Safety Concerns section

This section had blatant plagiarism. We cannot directly copy/paste what a report says like that. We must, instead, summarize and paraphrase. And where we quote, we must use quotation marks, and restrict ourselves to as little direct quotation as possible. Misplaced Pages is not simply a repository for quotes about stuff. An encyclopedia is much more than that. The relevant guideline is Misplaced Pages:Plagiarism.--Shibbolethink 21:27, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

New(ish) source and more

This is the most recent source I found about the number of high-containment biological laboratories (roughly meaning BSL-3 and BSL-4). It looks reliable, but mostly based on older sources that this article is already using (guess it can still be useful for finding other sources or filling up the BSL-4 list). The sentence about the USA Today report seems a bit misleading (in 2015 it was well known that there were far more than 200 BSL-3 facilities, their locaton/identity is what wasn't public or easy to find; here's the original artice, which may be a better source than the current one; the sentence about the GAO report also uses the verb "identify", but that's a number likely closer to the actual total number and the report doesn't disclose their location; the above linked more recent source uses 1,643, that looks like 1,362 with DSAT + 281 with APHIS, it's based on a slightly newer, but not much different GAO report, probably a lower estimate, not sure if some laboratories figure in both counts). Not sure what to do with this, so I'll just drop the links and leave eventual edits to other editors. 109.119.248.146 (talk) 21:36, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Biosafety level

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Biosafety level's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "feldman07":

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT⚡ 14:14, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

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