ABSTRACT
Biosafety comprises the practices used to contain organisms aiming to reduce risks and avoid accidents, primarily those affecting the environment and, consequently, that may compromise human and animal health. Good Practices are general guidelines of conduct applied to ensure the quality, safety, consistency, and reliability of products and services. One of the first conferences in this regard was the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment that took place in Stockholm in 1972. The CBD was supplemented by the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety addresses the transboundary movements of living modified organisms as an environmental protection measure. The history of laboratory accidents holds several examples related to biosafety. Systematic studies in this regard started in 1941 with a publication by Eddie and Meyer, where the authors describe 74 cases of laboratory-acquired brucellosis in the United States.
