Goal: To analyze the role and importance of biosecurity in animal agriculture.

Description: Biosecurity is an essential step in ensuring animal health and providing a safe food supply to consumers. This lesson defines biosecurity and examines how biosecurity is enforced on a national level as well as the risks which animal operations face and management practices which are put in place to mitigate these risks.

Objectives:

1. To define biosecurity.

2. To analyze the role of biosecurity in animal agriculture in the United States.

3. To identify biosecurity risks.

4. To discover biosecurity management practices.