American Type Culture Collection

ATCC?s catalog has a list of biosafety (BSL) levels for all cell lines maintained by ATCC. They also have lists for bacteria and other cultures.

Web:

[Bacteria]

http://www.atcc.org/common/catalog/bacteria/bacteriaIndex.cfm

[Cell lines]

http://www.atcc.org/common/catalog/cellBiology/cellBiologyIndex.cfm

[Others]

http://www.atcc.org/

American Biological Safety Association

The ABSA website lists their recommended risk groups and BSL levels for a number of common and biological agents, viruses, fungi, and parasites.

Web:

http://www.absa.org/resriskgroup.html

World Health Organization

The WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual (3^rd ed) is the essential introduction to biosafety practices. They have detailed explanations of the lab requirements for conformance with the various biosafety levels as well as animal biosafety levels.

PDF:

http://www.who.int/entity/csr/resources/publications/biosafety/Biosafety7.pdf

Communicable Diseases Center (USA)

The CDC/NIH Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories manual is another source of reference for lab requirements.

Web: http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/bmbl5/bmbl5toc.htm

PDF: http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/pdffiles/4th%20BMBL.pdf

Public Health Agency of Canada

The Public Health Agency of Canada has a comprehensive database of material safety datasheets for biological and infectious agents.

Web:

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/msds-ftss/index.html

Ministry of Health (Singapore)

The Biosafety branch of the Ministry of Health periodically updates the Biological Agents and Toxins acts. New developments in local biosafety legislation will also be updated on their website.

Web:

http://www.biosafety.moh.gov.sg/bioe/index.do