The BioPhorum CGT Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) workstream offers this downloadable template for CGT institutions to use to assess and mitigate biosafety risk for human-derived cell lines susceptible to adventitious agents.
Adventitious virus and mycoplasma
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This paper addresses the need for a systematic and best practice approach to the evaluation, validation and implementation of these methods related to adventitious agents testing to support the adoption of alternative adventitious agent testing (AAT) methods. A nine-step framework and common language are described which can be applied by biopharmaceutical companies wanting to take advantage of the numerous benefits of ARMMs and alternative AATs.