The purpose of this University of Wisconsin–Madison Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) policy is to define the process of biosafety protocol expiration.
The IBC has set a three-year expiration date for a biosafety protocol. The Principal Investigator (PI) will receive sufficient notifications of impending expiration, by Bio-ARROW notifications and email from OBS. UW–Madison is subject to the NIH Guidelines including assurance that biosafety protocols are regularly reviewed and are up-to-date.
The following process will be followed by the Office of Biological Safety (OBS) and the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC):
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