It is disclosed at a hearing, jointly sponsored by China Certification and Accreditation Administration and China National Accreditation Board for Laboratories, that China will resume its disease organism related experiments on large animals. China had ceased to do so from 2004. The Department of Biosecurity, part of the Wuhan University, recently passed the national certification check for its Class III Animal Lab, which indicates an official start of China?痵 biosecurity accreditation system. China Certification and Accreditation Administration also rules out that large animal labs will not be allowed to operate without a national certification.
Class III Animal Lab of the Wuhan University, having been constructed for more than 6 months with the support by seven government agencies, including the State Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Health, and General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, can accommodate bioexperiments on 50 macaques at the same time. The lab will be put into official operation upon the terminal verification check organized by the Ministry of Health. It will work on some 10 types of disease organisms, including SARS coronavirus, M.tuberculosis, AIDS viruses, and hemorrhagic fever viruses. |
