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Dangerous biological agent
Dangerous biological factor — an event, condition, property, epidemic, epizootic, or epidemiological process, or their combination, which is the cause of a possible effect of pathogenic biological agents (pathogens), parasitic organisms and objects containing them, capable of causing harm to human health, animals and (or) plants, animal and (or) plant products and (or) the environment1.
Federal Law No. 492-FZ dated December 30, 2020 "On Biological Safety in the Russian Federation". 2020, amended on December 30, 2020, Article 1, paragraph 2. ↩