WHO consultative meeting high/maximum containment (biosafety level 4) laboratories networking: venue: International Agency on Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, 13-15 December 2017: meeting report
6 February 2018
| Meeting report
Overview
Bringing together experts from more than 20 countries and representing 53 institutions, WHO held the inaugural Consultative Meeting on High/Maximum Containment (Biosafety Level 4) Laboratories Networking in Lyon, France on 13–15 December 2017. The participants included facility operators, engineers, lead scientists and representatives of national regulatory authorities; they identified shared challenges, opportunities for collaboration and potential solutions to improve the design, maintenance, regulations and operations of maximum-containment laboratories (biosecurity level 4 – BSL-4).