From Article 13 of the Biosafety Law of People's Republic of China (PRC): Relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for biosafety-related work according to the division of responsibilities. Grassroots mass autonomous organizations shall assist local people's governments and relevant departments to do a good job in biosafety risk prevention and control, emergency response and publicity and education.
According to the central government's guidelines and policies on biosafety, the Biosafety Law determines that the scope of application of this law mainly includes eight aspects: first, the prevention and control of major emerging infectious diseases and animal and plant epidemics; Second, the research, development and application of biotechnology; Third, the biosafety management of pathogenic microorganism laboratory; The fourth is the safety management of human genetic resources and biological resources.
The fifth is to prevent the invasion of alien species and protect biodiversity; The sixth is to deal with microbial resistance; Seventh, guard against bioterrorism attacks and threats of biological weapons; Eight is other activities related to biosafety. These eight aspects of behavior and related management activities are the scope of regulation and adjustment of biosafety law.
The concept of biosafety:
Biosafety generally refers to the potential threat to the ecological environment and human health caused by the development and application of modern biotechnology, and a series of effective prevention and control measures taken against it. Based on the possible adverse effects of the development of biotechnology, people put forward the concept of biosafety.
Biotechnology or genetic engineering products have entered people's daily life, such as genetically modified foods, amino acids, vitamins, medicines, genetically modified cotton, various genetic engineering enzyme preparations, thickeners, organic acids, emulsifiers, surfactants, food pigments, synthetic indigo, restriction endonucleases and so on. All these are permeated with the function of genetic engineering.
The important task of biosafety legislation is to determine the basic system of national biosafety management according to law. In terms of system setting, there are mainly 1 1 (including: establishing biosafety risk monitoring and early warning system, biosafety risk investigation and evaluation system, biosafety information sharing system, biosafety information publishing system, biosafety directory and inventory system, etc.). ).