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Recommendations of the SECB

The SECB issues recommendations on safety issues in the areas of gene technology and biotechnology.

Recommendation of the SECB on Structural and Technical Safety Measures in BSL-3 Laboratories, May 2022 (translation January 2023) (pdf, 840 KB)
SECB Recommendation on the safe handling of human and animal cells and cell cultures, 2011 (updated October 2019) (pdf, 412 KB)
Recommendation of the SECB on the classification of work with genetically modified viral vectors, 2009 (updated May 2017) (pdf, 1 MB)
Recommendation of the SECB on the treatment and disposal of waste produced in contained systems, 2009 (updated April 2017) (pdf, 591 KB)
Recommendation of the SECB / Catalogue of criteria: Microbiological safety cabinet in safety level 2, 2014 (pdf, 356 KB)
Recommendation of the Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety on BSE diagnostics: classification and safety measures (2013) (pdf, 306 KB)
Recommendation of the Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety on the classification of activities using prion genes and prion proteins (2013) (pdf, 680 KB)
Recommendation of the SECB on the risk assessment of activities using oncogenic and cytokine-encoding sequences (2005, updated 2013) (pdf, 624 KB)
SECB Recommendation for work at sites potentially contaminated with anthrax spores (2012, updated April 2017) (pdf, 305 KB)
Recommendation of the SECB on the maintenance of BSL-2 and BSL-3 laboratories (2012) (pdf, 5 MB)
- Appendix 1 BSL-2 (pdf, 130 KB)
- Appendix 1 BSL-2 (xls, 186 KB)
- Appendix 1 BSL-3 (pdf, 174 KB)
- Appendix 1 BSL-3 (xls, 468 KB)
SECB Recommendation on classification of activities using the viruses HBV, HCV, HDV and HGV (2011) (pdf, 369 KB)

Last edition: 01.05.2026

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