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.
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This paper and supporting template identifies, shares and enhances best practices and standards, improves risk controls and increases the speed of learning. It discusses a general process designed to provide a risk assessment framework and contains a ready-to-use template. This highlights the complexity of commercial-scale manufacturing as well as considering the areas to assess, potential questions to ask while assessing them, and the other parties who may have pertinent input to the overall risk assessment.
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