OECD Best Practice Guidelines for Biological Resource Centres
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9789264128767
Subjects: Science and Technology
Description: These best practice guidelines are intended to serve as a target for the quality management of biological resource center collections. They are the result of discussions held by OECD member countries together with a number of key partner countries under the auspices of an expert Task Force established by the OECD Working Party on Biotechnology.   They were developed in extensive consultation with the scientific community. 
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: PART I. RATIONALE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT; title: Chapter 1. Introduction; title: Chapter 2. The Functions of Biological Resource Centres and the Quest for Quality and Sustainability; title: Chapte 3. Development and Implementation of Best Practices for Biological Resource Centres; title: Chapter 4. Summary of Recommendations; title: PART II. BEST PRACTICES; title: Forward; title: General Best Practices Guidelines for all Biological Resource Centres; title: Best Practice Guidelines on Biosecurity for BRCs; title: Best Practice Guidelines for the Micro-Organism Domain; title: Best Practice Guidelines On Human-Derived Material; title: Possible Approach to National Certification