or create potentially harmful biological material will have a committee or board of supervisors that is in charge of the institution's biosafety. They create and monitor the biosafety standards that must be met by labs in order to prevent the accidental release of potentially destructive biological material. (In the US, several groups are involved, but there is no unifying regulatory authority for all labs.)

Biosafety is related to several fields:

* In ecology (referring to imported life forms

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