Biosecurity, I feel, is a strategic and integrated approach that needed a regulatory frame-work and policy to analyze and manage risks associated with food safety, plant and animal health and environment. How to frame that?
Dear Colleague,
here an iteresting paper about the state of the art in Biosafety and Biosecurity in European Countries
Article State-of-the-Art in Biosafety and Biosecurity in European Countries
In addition, in the frame of Horizon 2020, an EIP-AGRI has been created
https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/event/interactive-workshop-biosecurity-eu
Hallo,
The prevention and control of new pest and disease introductions is an agricultural challenge which is attracting growing public interest. This interest is in part driven by an impression that the threat is increasing, but there has been little analysis of the changing rates of biosecurity threat, and existing evidence is equivocal. Traditional biosecurity systems for animals and plants differ substantially but are beginning to converge.
Article Agricultual biosecurity
Dr. Gadallah, in addition, I think we need to describe policies and procedure adopted to ensure environmentally safe application of modern biotechnology including the product derived from the use of recombinant DNA technology. We also need bio-security in relation to the trade and exchange.
Biosecurity is a set of strategies that reduce risk of aquatic pests and infectious diseases to an acceptable level in the facility and its immediate surroundings. A biosecurity risk is anything that could increase the impacts of pests, diseases, weeds or contaminants on the economy, environment or community. Effective biosecurity procedures are practical measures to limit the spread of infectious diseases and pests, both within a farm and from one farm to another. They are essential in preventing and controlling the spread of important exotic and endemic diseases.