Section 333.20551 - Registration of laboratory or other place handling, cultivating, selling, giving away, or shipping pathogenic microorganisms, or doing recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid research; a - Michigan Statutes

PUBLIC HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 368 of 1978

333.20551 Registration of laboratory or other place handling, cultivating, selling, giving away, or shipping pathogenic microorganisms, or doing recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid research; application for and duration of registration number; clinical laboratory considered registered; “handling,”“cultivating,”“shipping” defined.

Sec. 20551.

(1) A laboratory or other place where live bacteria, fungi, mycoplasma, parasites, viruses, or other microorganisms of a pathogenic nature are handled, cultivated, sold, given away, or shipped from or to or where recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid research is done shall be registered with the department, and a registration number shall be issued to each place registered. An application for a registration number shall be made by the person in charge of the laboratory or other place where the pathogens are handled or where recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid research is done. The registration number is valid for 1 year and may be renewed upon application to the department.

(2) A clinical laboratory licensed in microbiology under sections 20501 to 20525 is registered for purposes of this section and section 20552, and its license number shall be used as its registration number.

(3) As used in sections 20551 and 20552, “handled”, “cultivated”, or “shipped” does not include the collection of specimens, the initial inoculation of specimens into transport media or culture media, or the shipment to registered laboratories, but does include any additional work performed on cultivated pathogenic microorganisms or any recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid research is done.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Popular Name: Act 368