Biosecurity and Emergency Preparedness

To reduce the infectious diseases transmission risk in livestock and crops, quarantined pests, living modified organisms and invasive alien species an originally conceptualized set of preventive measures designed is known as biosecurity. Some risks are growing rapidly, Because of limitation n available resources and time for calculating the likelihood and analyzing threats of the occurrence developing of an effective policy is a major challenge. The emergencies in biosecurity can occur through weeds, pests and diseases; these are giving a negative impact on community, economy and environment. Commonly occurring incident which are within the capacity of NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) are not included in biosecurity emergencies.