How to Use biosecurity in a Sentence
biosecurity
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This large-scale transfer of cattle is one of many biosecurity weak spots that observers and critics of the dairy industry say is contributing to the spread of the disease.
— Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024 -
Giroir’s work made him one of the most esteemed biosecurity researchers in the Lone Star State.
— Paul Cobler, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2020 -
Collins’s staff assigned the agency’s biosecurity board to assess the risk.
— Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021 -
And to do that, designers are seeking lessons from the highest biosecurity labs on Earth.
— Rebecca Renner, Science, 11 Dec. 2020 -
The facility has the biosecurity level required to work with the live virus.
— Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 27 June 2021 -
But Parker, speaking for himself and not for the biosecurity board, stressed the need to rebuild public trust in these contentious times.
— Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023 -
White had 21 kangaroos hanging on his truck, each of them killed with a single shot to the head, each of them tagged with his name and the location for biosecurity tracking.
— BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021 -
The lab-leak theory, if proved, would point to the need to tighten biosecurity at laboratories all over the world.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021 -
The requirements, still in draft form, would require a biosecurity check by WDFW staff taking samples for pathogens twice a year.
— Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 18 Feb. 2018 -
Baric notes that his lab is one of the few that has the biosecurity needed to grow and experiment with those coronaviruses.
— Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021 -
Beijing and Washington spent much of 2020 squabbling about biosecurity and the origin of the coronavirus.
— Nathan Levine, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2021 -
The term biosecurity refers to efforts aimed at preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
— Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2020 -
Janika Schmitt is a biosecurity fellow with the Institute for Progress.
— Janika Schmitt, STAT, 10 July 2023 -
An island nation with some of the toughest biosecurity laws in the world, Australia quickly shut its external borders in March 2020.
— Maria Petrakis, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021 -
Meanwhile, farms across the U.S. are taking steps to increase biosecurity measures.
— NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022 -
In contrast, the intelligence report said the November 2019 safety training appeared to be run-of-the-mill rather than a response to a biosecurity breach.
— ProPublica, 7 July 2023 -
My advice for business leaders is to create a Covid team that will be in charge of creating and overseeing all of the new biosecurity procedures.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021 -
China has already prepared to take a leading role on biosecurity.
— Nathan Levine, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2021 -
With Xi himself calling for action, a biosecurity bill that had been on the back burner became a top priority and later passed.
— Katherine Eban, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2022 -
To keep the rats out, tough biosecurity measures are being put in place, including keeping tourist boats offshore and moving people to the island via much smaller boats where rats cannot hide out.
— National Geographic, 9 May 2018 -
As science advances, so too do the threats, both in biosecurity and disruptive technologies.
— Sharon Squassoni, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023 -
Ginkgo is using these next 18 months to build up biosecurity measures via the concept of surveillance testing.
— Bill Frist, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021 -
The many-step process of making vaccines needs high biosecurity and intense quality control.
— Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023 -
Sprinkle in a few quotes from concerned biosecurity experts.
— Daniel Grushkin, STAT, 4 June 2018 -
Finally, just a note about organic turkeys: Because of the avian flu, biosecurity is high right now at commercial farms.
— Susanne Ruststaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022 -
The report, its researchers said, showed the importance of maintaining strict biosecurity in Australia.
— Heather Chen, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022 -
That month, China’s top legislative body passed a law for biosecurity risk prevention and response.
— Alina Chan and Matt Ridley, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2021 -
Following state regulations, game farms affected by CWD must implement a biosecurity plan that aims to stop the spread of the disease.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2021 -
Though passengers are seldom stuck on a ship for as much as a week, Australia and New Zealand’s strict biosecurity requirements have previously forced cruise ships to veer off course.
— Natasha Frost, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023 -
An agency spokesman said vaccine development does not suggest that the biosecurity protocols that the USDA and state governments have followed have failed.
— Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
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