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Biologicals

WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization

Mission

The WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization is commissioned by WHO to establish detailed recommendations and guidelines for the manufacturing, licensing, and control of blood products, cell regulators, vaccines and related in vitro diagnostic tests. Members of the Expert Committee are scientists from national control agencies, academia, research institutes, public health bodies and the pharmaceutical industry acting as individual experts and not as representatives of their respective organizations or employers. The decisions and recommendations of the Committee are based entirely on scientific principles and considerations of public health.

The Expert Committee on Biological Standardization meets on an annual basis since 1947 and is reponsible for the establishment of the WHO International Biological Reference Preparations and for the adoption of the WHO Recommendations and Guidelines. The Expert Committee directly reports to the Executive Board, which is the executive arm of the World Health Assembly.

Technical report series

Provide updated information on the establishment, discontinuation and replacement of the WHO International Biological Reference Preparations as well on the adoption of Guidelines and Recommendations.


ECBS 2011

BS Working Documents

Guidelines


ECBS 2010

Outcomes of the 2010 World Health Organization Expert Committee on Biological Standardization


ECBS 2009

Outcomes of the 2009 World Health Organization Expert Committee on Biological Standardization


ECBS 2008

Outcomes of the 2008 World Health Organization Expert Committee on Biological Standardization

NEW PUBLICATIONS

OUTCOMES OF THE EXPERT COMMITTEE ON BIOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION, 18-22 october 2010

WHO HPV LabNet - Newsletter No. 8

UPCOMING EVENTS

Working Group on the Quality, Safety and Efficacy of Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine (live, attenuated) for human use, Bangkok, Thailand, 21-23 February 2012

WHO Informal Consultation on Recommendations to Assure the Quality, Safety and Efficacy of Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral (OPV), Geneva, Switzerland, 27-29 March 2012

CONTACTS

Quality, Safety and Standards (QSS)
Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB)
World Health Organization (WHO)
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1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
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