Biosafety and Biosecurity System Improvement in ASEAN


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Lead Country: Lao PDR 

Lao PDR PDR kicked-off their project through enhancement and upgrading their national laboratory, among others BSC, floor plan reconfiguration, and its roof to ensure the compliance with global standard for biosafety laboratories.

At regional level Lao PDR will lead the discussion among AMS through a workshop on knowledge management and biosafety regulation among AMS, this activity planned to be carried out in 2020, however due to COVID-19 pandemic it being postponed to the first quarter of 2021. The workshop aims to achieve the following objectives:

  1. To review and sharing existing national legislation Biosafety in ASEAN countries member states;
  2. To identify potential checklist of pathogen can be transfer and prohibited in each AMS; and
  3. To strengthening cooperation – collaboration of Biosafety network among AMS through the existing ASEAN Biosafety and Biosecurity Network.