| | | Past event - BBP Workshop on Biocides | | | | On April 22, BBP organised a workshop on Biocides together with EBSA Biocides task force. This event brought us a lot of interesting insights and lively discussions on topics BBP will further tackle. Our president, Elisabeth, set the example of how to clean up a biological spill appropriately. | | | | Past event - EBSA Conference Antwerp 2024 | | | | The BBP Steering Team was also present. It was a nice networking occasion. Did you see our poster ‘BBP behind the scenes: composition, accomplishments & future perspectives’?
We also held our annual BBP get-together where we could meet other BBP-members in a nice setting and with lots of good food. | | | | Save the date: EBSA Conference Maastricht, 13-16 May 2025 | | | | The EBSA Conference 2025 will be held from May 13 to 16 in Maastricht (the Netherlands). This event promises to be an exciting gathering of experts, researchers, and professionals in the field. The detailed programme for the preconference courses and the main conference will be released later this year.
Check the EBSA website for updates! | | | | Save the date: BSOH & BBP Joint event, 6 December 2024 | | | | On December 6 BSOH and BBP will organise a joint event in Anderlecht. A preliminary summary of topics includes glove specifications, evolution of biosafety over the past years, containment in large scale facilities. More info will follow! | | | | Royal Decree on measures to eradicate the nematodes Globodera pallida and rostochiensis | | | | The new Royal Decree of 19 April 2024 on the quarantine nematode species of Globodera had been published recently. The mandatory viability analysis will be applied from the next sampling campaign beginning 15/9/2024. | | | | FAVV Phytosanitary requirements for the export of plant seeds | | | | FAVV gets notifications from countries that are changing their phytosanitary legislation. Often there is a possibility to give comments. Therefore, FAVV asks if BBP can foresee an overview of types of plant seeds that are being traded by BBP members together with their export destination. If you want to contribute you can complete an anonymous survey via https://forms.gle/ZL4hEHs92NCrNBNj6 | | | | Phytosanitary requirements for the imports of propagating material of Petunia spp. | | | | Phytosanitary requirements for the imports of propagating material of Petunia spp.
Please note publication of the WTO SPS notification G/SPS/N/BRA/2032/ADD.3 from BRAZIL, which is accessible at the following link:
No comment period provided. Possibility for comments, if any via the SPS-NOTE-X Database using the following link:
Should the EU stakeholders have any comments on this notification, please send them to the EU SPS Notification Authority and Enquiry Point only via email: sps@ec.europa.eu. | | | | Biosecurity Scenario: Designing toxic proteins with AI Biodesign tool | | | | Artificial intelligence (AI) is nowadays all around us. Think of ChatGPT, for example, but there are also various biodesign tools such as ProteinBERT or DeepCRISPR. With these tools you can design proteins with certain therapeutic properties much faster and in a more targeted manner. The possibilities are enormous, and AI offers many opportunities, but there are also risks. For more info on this topic, check the website of Bureau Biosecurity. | | | | Topics that were tackled by the BBP task force in recent years (in consultation with Belgian authorities & technical experts) are, for example, waste, biosafety practices, risk assessment, movement of biological materials, biocides and high containment.
Your suggestions & input on topics are welcome via bbp.steeringteam@ebsaweb.eu! | | | | Competence requirements for biorisk management advisors | | | | The New ISO TS/5441 on Competence requirements for biorisk management advisors has been published recently. This standard defines the requirements for competence of individuals who provide advice, guidance, and assurance on processes to identify, assess, control, and monitor the risks associated with hazardous biological materials in a laboratory or other related organization that handles, stores, transports, or disposes of biological materials that can be potentially hazardous for people, animals, plants and the environment | | | | WHO Laboratory Biosecurity Guidance | | | | Recently WHO has published a revised Laboratory biosecurity guidance, focusing on biosecurity risk assessment, the strengthening of the review function of the institutional biosafety committees and the proposal of a two-tier system of national oversight. | | | | | |
