How to Use biosecurity in a Sentence

biosecurity

noun
  • Australia's biosecurity laws are among the strictest in the world.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • Some biosecurity experts have called for governments to set up guardrails to try to limit these risks.
    — Alison Snyder, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Collins’s staff assigned the agency’s biosecurity board to assess the risk.
    — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Scientists who have been worried about future biosecurity threats for some time praised this work.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Evidence is mounting that the virus may be carried by wind, thwarting even the best biosecurity.
    — Ellen P. Carlin, STAT, 14 Jan. 2026
  • He was scheduled to go to Iowa and Ohio to provide biosecurity in the battle against bird flu.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
  • China has already prepared to take a leading role on biosecurity.
    — Nathan Levine, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 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
  • So use good biosecurity measures.
    — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In the past, countries have banded together to try to handle biosecurity threats.
    — Liyam Chitayat, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In general, good biosecurity dictates that bird feeders should not be near poultry.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 2 May 2022
  • The virus did not come down the Asian migratory flyways that biosecurity planners had watched for years.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • 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
  • Gingrich views the dead cows in the video as an isolated incident that served as a good biosecurity measure to reduce bird flu's spread on farms.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The term biosecurity refers to efforts aimed at preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
    — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2020
  • But as Adamala and her colleagues talked with biosecurity experts about the project, grave concerns began brewing.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The many-step process of making vaccines needs high biosecurity and intense quality control.
    — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Although poultry vaccines were studied, biosecurity measures and culling flocks with sick birds have been the strategy to take on the virus.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2025
  • As science advances, so too do the threats, both in biosecurity and disruptive technologies.
    — Sharon Squassoni, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, farmers are working to protect their flocks with biosecurity efforts.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The agency is still working through biosecurity testing, such as pullorum tests and fecal results.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That’s a failure of surveillance and biosecurity.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Goicoechea said there doesn’t seem to be a lot of movement of people or equipment between the dairies, which have been following strict biosecurity protocols.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The lab leakers tend to be more interested in biosecurity, transparency, and human hubris.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Owners of all flocks, large and small, must remain vigilant with their biosecurity to prevent the virus's introduction.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Ginkgo is using these next 18 months to build up biosecurity measures via the concept of surveillance testing.
    — Bill Frist, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021

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