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 expo [..]

is safety aspects related to the application of biotechnologies and to the release into the environment of [transgenic plants and other organisms particularly micro-organisms] that could negatively affect plant genetic resources, plant, animal or human health, or the environment. Source: FAO Draft International Code of Conduct for Plant Biotechnolo [..]

Biosafety is the set of measures or actions addressing the safety aspects related to the application of biotechnology and to the release into the environment of transgenic plants and other organisms. [..]

(n) safety from exposure to infectious agents

Set of measures or actions addressing the safety aspects related to the application of biotechnologies (see biotechnology) and to the release into the environment of transgenic plants and other organisms, particularly microorganisms, that could negatively affect plant genetic resources, plant, animal or human health, or the environment.