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- Biologicals - World Health Organization (WHO)
Biologicals are a class of medicines made from living cells taken from plants, animals or bacteria These cells are use in creating many types of health care products, including vaccines This group of medicines also includes products derived from human blood and plasma for the treatment of many life-threatening diseases and for surgical procedures
- Guidelines for Biologicals - World Health Organization (WHO)
Home Teams Technical standards and specifications Norms and standards for Biological Products Guidelines for Biologicals
- Biotherapeutic products - World Health Organization (WHO)
A major industrial application of biotechnology is in the development and preparation of biological medicinal products using genetically engineered bacteria, yeast, fungi, cells or even whole animals and plants
- Biological weapons - World Health Organization (WHO)
Biological and toxin weapons are either microorganisms like virus, bacteria or fungi, or toxic substances produced by living organisms that are produced and released deliberately to cause disease and death in humans, animals or plants Biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin and plague can pose a difficult public health challenge causing large numbers of deaths in a short amount of
- Laboratory biosafety manual, 4th edition - World Health Organization (WHO)
This fourth edition of the manual builds on the risk assessment framework introduced in the third edition A thorough, evidence-based and transparent assessment of the risks allows safety measures to be balanced with the actual risk of working with biological agents on a case-by-case basis
- Laboratory biosafety manual, 3rd edition - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO continues to provide international leadership in biosafety through this third edition of the manual by addressing biological safety and security issues facing us in the current millennium The third edition stresses throughout the importance of personal responsibility
- Health products policy and standards
The catalogue of international reference standards for biological products is updated following the Expert Committee on Biological Standardization meetings See below for the catalogue, listed in alphabetical order and includes additional information
- Sterility testing - World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO sterility testing guidelines are applicable across a wide range of biological medicinal products including vaccines, blood products, biotechnology products, and cell and tissue products
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