title: [Biosafety, environmental protection and health: completing the puzzle].
abstract: This work reflects on the development of the field of Biosafety. The scope of this field is presented, as well as its complex themes and its interdisciplinary perspective. The scope of this field is to propose actions capable of preventing and controlling the risk of worsening human and environmental health. This is done in order to provide alternatives to the theoretical and practical challenges posed by the rapid changes in the world, resulting from human intervention in nature and mediated by scientific and technological advances. We address questions that place Biosafety as a tool in the search for a model of sustainable development, establishing the relationship between environmental degradation, precarious health conditions, and control of the emergence and reemergence of diseases in populations.
authors.affiliation: Núcleo de Biossegurança, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. sotelino@fiocruz.br
authors.forename: Sheila Sotelino
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: da Rocha
authors.forename: Theolis Costa Barbosa
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Bessa
authors.forename: Alzira Maria Paiva
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: de Almeida
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004782:Environmental Health; D006801:Humans; D012449:Safety