The Sixth General and Science meeting of Japanese Biological Safety
AssociationNovember 24, 2006 (Friday)

AgendaOpening remark [9:25 〜 9:30]

Chairman of the Meeting H. Watanabe

Session 1 Safety Management ［9：30 〜 11：30］

Chair T. Kurata

1) Revision of Infectious Disease Control
Law; For use and storage of pathogens

Health Service Bureau,
Ministry of Health,Labourand Welfare, Japan2) What changes by integration to the new Health and Welfare
Infectious Diseases Control Law of theDepartment, Yamagata
Tuberculosis Prevention Law
Prefectural Government3) Current status of bio‑safety at 76
Sakai City Institute ofprefectural Institutes of Public Health in Public HealthA. MikiT. Ahiko
T. Tanaka

Japan

General meeting ［11：30 〜 12：15］*********************************************************************************************

Asia‑Pacific Symposium for Biosafety‑‑‑Biosafety in Asia‑Pacific‑‑‑［13：30〜17：00］

Organized by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Co‑organized by the Japanese Biological Safety Association, the JapaneseSociety for Virology, the Japanese Society for Bacteriology, and the JapaneseSociety for Clinical Microbiology, and the research group for Biosafety
strengthening and establishment of Biosecurity systems regarding to pathogenic
microorganisms , Research on Emerging and Re‑emerging Infectious Diseases,
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

Supported by the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
Admission free and Simultaneous interpretation (English/Japanese)
provided********************************************************************************

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Welcome Party ［17：45 〜 19：45］
November 25, 2006 (Saturday)

Topics [9:15 〜 10:00]

Chair K. Yamanishi

Highly pathogenic avian influenza
Preparedness and crisis management of avian influenza and human influenza
pandemics
Department of Virology III,
National Institute of InfectiousDiseases

M. Tashiro‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑ Break 10 min ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑

Special Session Pathogenic Bacteria from Biosafety point of view [10:10 〜
12:20]
Chair H. Watanabe
1) Bacillus anthracis
2) Plague3) Tularemia4) Clostridium botulinum
toxin

Obihiro University of Agriculture andVeterinary Medicine
Department of Bacteriology I,
National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Department of Veterinary Science,
National Institute of Infectious DiseasesGraduate School of Life and Environmental
Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University

S. Makino
H. Takahashi
O. Fujita
S. Ozaki‑‑‑‑‑ Lunch [12:20 〜 13:10] ‑‑‑‑‑

Session 2 Applied subjects [13:10 〜 14:10]
Chair S. Ando, K. Yoshida, and S. Kogure
1) Training for biological safety in regional Hokkaido Institute ofinstitute of public healthPublicHealth2) Consideration of reliability on inflow
Airtech Japan, Ltd.
velocity measurement for class II
biological safety cabinets (BSC)
3) Protective Performance of Biological AZEARTH Corporation
Protective Clothing Materials Against
Penetration of Synthetic Blood

S. IkiK. Takagi
S. Kumagai

Session 3 Hospital・Health Laboratory Biosafety [14:30 〜 17:30]「Countermeasure for improvement of Health Labs」
Chair M. Nagasawa, H. Sagara, and A.
Kitabayashi
1) Current Action of Japanese Society for
Clinical Microbiology and related Academic
Societies toward a new government regulationof infectious diseases and pathogens
2) TB Infection Control Measures in a ClinicalLaboratory
3) Influence and problems owing to upcoming
revision of the Infection Law of Japan

Graduate School ofMedicine,Gifu UniversityTB
Bacteriology
ConsultantDokkyo MedicalUniversity
Hospital
4) Medical laboratories‑Requirements for Miroku Medicalsafety
Laboratory,
Inc.
Additional utterance:
Medical Diagnostic
Problems of Biosafety in autoanalyzer
Center ofURAWA MedicalAssociation
5) Planning of BSL3 clinical laboratory
Hitachi appliances, Inc.
facility
Yashima・Eco・System
Co.LtD

T. Ezaki

C. AbeK. Okuzumi
E. Yanagisawa
K.Kamiyama

T. Okubo
A.
Kitabayashi