A new report comparing biosecurity laws is now available on the Law Library of Congress website. The report examines how Group of Twenty (G20) nations define “biosafety,” “biosecurity,” and related terms in legislation, codes, regulations, and guidelines.
According to the report’s comparative summary, G20 nations have multiple approaches for defining biosecurity-related legal terms.
Among the G20 nations’ laws discussed in this report, the methods for defining the terms “biosafety” and “biosecurity” generally fall into one of four categories. In the first category, “biosafety” and “biosecurity” are clearly defined in legislation or regulations, with specific distinctions. In the second set of jurisdictions