Biological risk is the probability of harm to the health of people, animals, and plants caused by pathogenic biological agents, as well as the probability of their entry into individual components of the natural environment.
The assessment of biological risks is aimed at preventing the occurrence of negative consequences of exposure to hazardous biological factors, means, methods, technologies, services in various areas of activity associated with handling pathogenic biological agents.
Biological risk assessment is carried out in relation to the handling of pathogenic biological agents, potentially dangerous biological objects, epidemic and epizootic foci of infectious and parasitic diseases and potential focal areas.