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The word "biosafety" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in contexts related to the protection of human health and the environment from biological risks. Example: "The laboratory follows strict biosafety protocols to prevent any accidental exposure to pathogens."
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biosafety
noun
Protection from potential harm from biological agents, such as infectious microbes or modified genes.
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Anti-GM groups cried foul over India's lack of an independent biosafety regulator.
The printer fits inside a standard laboratory biosafety cabinet, for sterile operation.
Officially, two reservoirs remain, behind locked doors and strict biosafety protocols, in secure laboratories run by America's Centres for Disease Control CDCC) and the State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology, in Russia.
The two labs where they reside have been rated at "biosafety level 3, enhanced", like the lab where the Spanish flu was resuscitated but still a notch below the highest "level 4" required for facilities which handle the very nastiest bugs.
But there is no action plan to raise standards more systematically.If there were, says Ms Smithson, more effort and urgency might go into biosafety and biosecurity.
The government's national GM biosafety committee readily gave approval for the rice to be tested outside the laboratory.
The outbreak was traced to two workers at the National Institute of Virology in Beijing, where experiments on the SARS virus had taken place but biosafety practices reportedly were lax.
In 1997, when Zhang was fifteen, he was offered an internship in a biosafety facility at the Des Moines Human Gene Therapy Research Institute — but he was told that federal law prohibited him from working in a secure lab until he was sixteen.
Since then, commercial prospects have stalled; very few Chinese scientists have even received biosafety certificates to test the impact of G.M.O.s on the surrounding environment, a necessary step to evaluate safety before considering commercialization.
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Biological labs are given four possible biosafety-level security grades, ranging from BSL-1 to BSL-4.
In Brazil, a single government body — the National Technical Commission on Biosafety — oversees the approval of all genetically modified organisms.
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