biosafety level 1

1. 1.

   exposure only to infectious agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease

   Broaderbiosafety level

Questions about biosafety level 1

What does biosafety level 1 mean?

biosafety level 1 means "exposure only to infectious agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease".

Is biosafety level 1 a common word?

biosafety level 1 is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.