ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.
Sec. Biosafety and Biosecurity
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2025.1611648
This article is part of the Research TopicInsights In Biosafety & Biosecurity 2024/2025: Novel Developments, Current Challenges, and Future PerspectivesView all 6 articles
A framework for evaluating biosafety and biosecurity in national network of Biosafety level-3 laboratories in India: An initiative under National One Health Mission
Provisionally accepted
Deepak Y Patil1
Dr. Rima R Sahay2
Anita Shete2
Anoop Velayudhan3Harmanmeet Kaur3Archana Upadhyay3
Pradip Barde4
Gururaj R Deshpande2
Uma Prajwal Nalavade5Shailesh D. Pawar5
Nivedita Gupta3*
PRAGYA DHRUV YADAV2*- 1National Institute for One Health, Nagpur, India
- 2ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, India
- 3Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
- 4Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology, Jabalpur Zonal Unit, Madhya Pradesh, India, Jabalpur, India
- 5Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology, Mumbai Unit, Maharashtra, India, Mumbai, India
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Due to emergence and re-emregence of various infectious diseases across human, animal, wildlife, and environmental sector, there is rapid expansion of high containment Biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratories in India under National One Health Mission.However, there is no standard tool to assess the compliance of these laboratories to biosafety and biosecurity parameters, assess staff competencies, sample archival & disposal and reporting processes. This may lead to several laspes and create a biosafety & biosecurity threat to the country. In view of this, the critical need was realized to develop a standard assessment tool to periodically assess the performance of BSL-3 laboratories. The tool includes specific sections with reference to a scoring checklist that assesses staff and training, sample handling and transportation, sample processing and testing procedures, data management and reporting, biomedical waste management, emergency preparedness and response, as well as general biosafety. The tool has been developed based on the strategies of the International Health Regulations and Global Health Security Agenda and has a potential to be adopted and used globally by various BSL-3 laboratories and auditors across the world.
Keywords: biosafety, biosecurity, BSL-3 laboratory network, India, One Health
Received: 14 Apr 2025; Accepted: 25 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Patil, Sahay, Shete, Velayudhan, Kaur, Upadhyay, Barde, Deshpande, Nalavade, Pawar, Gupta and YADAV. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Nivedita Gupta, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
PRAGYA DHRUV YADAV, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, India
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