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Biosafety - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Biosafety : (noun)
1: safety from exposure to infectious agents
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Biosafety : Biosafety: The application of knowledge, techniques and equipment to prevent personal, laboratory and environmental exposure to potentially infectious agents or biohazards. Biosafety defines
the containment conditions under which infectious agents can be safely manipulated. The objective of containment is to confine biohazards and to reduce the potential exposure of the laboratory worker,
persons outside of the laboratory, and the environment to potentially infectious agents.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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