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What are biosecurity and biocontainment?

Last Updated: March 24, 2009

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Biosecurity and biocontainment are a series of “best management practices” employed to prevent the movement of infectious agents, such as diseases, insects, or other biological organisms, from entering or leaving a farm or other facility. These agents may threaten plant, animal, and/or human health, food safety, and/or economics and can be naturally occurring or a result of human activity.

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