{"id":3298,"date":"2016-05-25T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T15:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/?page_id=3298"},"modified":"2017-05-26T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T14:20:11","slug":"pathogen-safety-data-sheets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/pathogen-safety-data-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathogen Safety Data Sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>The following is taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phac-aspc.gc.ca\/lab-bio\/res\/psds-ftss\/index-eng.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public Health Agency of Canada<\/a> website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phac-aspc.gc.ca\/lab-bio\/res\/psds-ftss\/index-eng.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pathogen Safety Data Sheets<\/a> (PSDSs) (previously titled Material Safety Data Sheets for Infectious Substances) are technical documents that describe the hazardous properties of a human pathogen (generally RG2 and above) and recommendations for work involving these agents in a laboratory setting. \u00a0Section VII of a PSDS includes\u00a0the Risk Group classification.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health Canada provides these MSDS sheets for workers in the life sciences to use as a safety reference for work with infectious microorganisms.<\/li>\n<li>PSDSs should\u00a0be used in conjunction with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/risk-groups-biosafety-levels-and-required-sto-work-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC-NIH\u00a0Risk Group Classifications<\/a> to determine appropriate biosafety levels and safety precautions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from the Public Health Agency of Canada website: Pathogen Safety Data Sheets (PSDSs) (previously titled Material Safety Data Sheets for Infectious Substances) are technical documents that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3298","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3298\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/chemical-hygiene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}