Biosafety
Biosafety: prevention of large-scale loss of biological integrity, focusing both on ecology and human health.
Biosafety is related to several fields
- in ecology (referring to imported life forms from beyond ecoregion borders),
- in agriculture (reducing the risk of alien viral or transgenic genes, or prions such as BSE/"MadCow", reducing the risk of food bacterial contamination)
- in medicine (referring to organs or tissues from biological origin, or genetic therapy products, virus; levels of lab containment protocols measured as 0, 2, 3, 4 in rising order of danger),
- in chemistry (i.e.nitrates in water, PCB levels affecting fertility) and
- in exobiology (i.e. NASA's policy for containing alien microbes that may exist on space samples - sometimes called "biosafety level 5").
The international Biosafety Protocol deals primarily with the agricultural definition but many advocacy groups seek to expand it to include post-genetic threats[?]: new molecules, artificial life forms, and even robots which may compete directly in the natural food chain.
Biosafety in agriculture, chemistry, medicine, exobiology and beyond will likely require application of the precautionary principle, and a new definition focused on the biological nature of the threatened organism rather than the nature of the threat.
When biological warfare or new, currently hypothetical, threats (i.e. robots, , new artificial bacteria) are considered, biosafety precautions are generally not sufficient. The new field of biosecurity addresses these complex threats.
External references:
- CDC Biosafety pages (http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/biosfty.htm)
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology: Biosafety pages (http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/~bsafesrv/bsfmain.htm)
- Greenpeace (http://greenpeace.org) safe trade campaign
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which he lived strengthens this surmise, for only after long-continued
fail. This was a century too early for the country around Manila,
to the north where the Ilokanos revolted.
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monument in Manila represents it to be, and he was far indeed from
describes him. Because of its nearness to Manila and Cavite and
but as the inhabitants never found occasion to abandon their homes,
the Islands, gained by the short experience of freer trade under
before unused, which led them to be discontented and insistent, till
of the British judicial system with the Spanish tribunals was also a
Spain was her iniquitous courts of justice, and this was especially
hanging of Chinese, which must have made Francisco Mercado glad that
against his race.
A few years later came the expulsion of the Jesuit fathers and the
personal acquaintance counted largely with the Filipinos; whole
and the parish priest was usually a Jesuit whose courtesy equalled that
neighboring hacienda of St. John the Baptist at Kalamba, where there
land to rival in fertility the rich soil of Biņan. Everybody in his
in Mexico by pious Spaniards who wanted to see Christianity spread.
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