Program: Biosafety

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Program Lead: Bob Hashimoto
Phone: (510) 643-6562
E-mail: bso@berkeley.edu

Biological Use Authorization (BUA)

A BUA application is the method by which principal investigators request approval to possess biological agents or materials covered by federal or state biosafety regulations.  Approval is required before work can start. A BUA is required to possess or handle the following materials:

• Recombinant agents or materials covered by the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/rac/guidelines/guidelines.html)
  
• Infectious agents or materials handled at Biosafety Level 2 or 3 (http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/bmbl5/bmbl5toc.htm)
  
• Inactivated select agents (http://www.selectagents.gov/agentToxinList.htm) or inactivated agents that when viable, are handled at Biosafety Level 3 
  
• Human blood, body fluids, tissues, or cells (including cell lines)
  
• Nonhuman primate blood, body fluids, tissues, or cells (including cell lines)
  
• Toxins

Forms

BUA instructions (PDF)
BUA application (Word document)
BUA-BBP – Human blood, body fluids, tissues, or cells (including cell lines) only (Word document)
General laboratory biosafety manual (Section III of the final, approved BUA) (PDF)
Employee Hepatitis B Vaccine Declination (PDF)

Training

All personnel listed on a BUA must attend the EH&S training course “Biosafety for Human, Animal and Plant Pathogens” before they start BUA work and every five years thereafter. Personnel can enroll at http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/ice/home/. For easiest navigation, click "enroll now" and use course code: CBIO.

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