Working Safely with Animals
Animal Biohazard Levels
Animal Biohazard Levels (A-BSL). ULAR has housing available for A-BSL levels 1 through 3:
- A-BSL 1 – well characterized agents that are not know to cause disease in health adult humans, minimal potential hazard to laboratory personnel and the environment
- A-BSL 2 – agents associated with human disease, hazards from ingestion as well as percutaneous and mucous membrane exposure
- A-BSL 3 – animals infected with indigenous or exotic agents, potential of aerosol transmission and of causing serious or potentially lethal disease. Animals must be housed in a dedicated BSL-3 area.
- A-BSL 4 - work with dangerous and exotic agents that pose a high individual risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections and life-threatening disease.
The Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) reviews all protocols using recombinant DNA, biohazards, human gene transfer or animal gene transfer.
