Biological risk

Biological risk is the likelihood of harm to the health of people, animals, and plants by pathogenic biological agents, as well as the likelihood of their entering individual components of the natural environment.
Assessment of biological risks is aimed at preventing the occurrence of negative consequences of exposure to dangerous biological factors, means, methods, technologies, services in various fields of activity associated with the handling of pathogenic biological agents.
Assessment of biological risks is carried out in relation to the handling of pathogenic biological agents, potentially dangerous biological objects, epidemic and epizootic foci of infectious and parasitic diseases and potentially focal areas.