Biosecurity roughly means safe life and involves a variety of measures designed to prevent disease causing agents from entering a region and there being spread. Food supplies are easy to disrupt and the provision of biosecurity at la- land borders is especially challenging if trade is to be maintained and when very few travellers are subjected to thorough inspection. WithinthecontextoftheNATOsponsoredworkshopthatwasheldinKiev, Ukraine during May 4 7, 2005, the pathogens were viruses that infect plants and the region encompassed developing states on the verge of acceding into the European...

Biosecurity roughly means safe life and involves a variety of measures designed to prevent disease causing agents from entering a region and there being spread. Food supplies are easy to disrupt and the provision of biosecurity at la- land borders is especially challenging if trade is to be maintained and when very few travellers are subjected to thorough inspection. WithinthecontextoftheNATOsponsoredworkshopthatwasheldinKiev, Ukraine during May 4 7, 2005, the pathogens were viruses that infect plants and the region encompassed developing states on the verge of acceding into the European...