The purpose of our biosafety site is to provide guidance and direction for handling, transporting and disposing of hazardous biological agents at St. Michael’s Hospital. A hazardous biological agent is defined as biologically-derived material that poses a hazard to human health or to the environment. Although the awareness of the hazards posed by these agents have increased over the previous decades, the widespread and increasing use of these agents in research, means they pose an ever increasing risk to researchers and the general public.
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