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1Quarantine — The period of isolation decreed to control the spread of infectious disease. Before the era of antibiotics, quarantine as one of the few available means for halting the spread of infectious diseases. It is still employed as needed, for example,… …
2quarantine — I. noun Etymology: partly modification of French quarantaine, from Old French, from quarante forty, from Latin quadraginta, from quadra (akin to quattuor four) + ginta (akin to viginti twenty); partly modification of Italian quarantena quarantine …
3Regulation of ship pollution in the United States — International laws and regulationsMARPOL 73/78 is one of the most important treaties regulating pollution from ships. Six Annexes of the Convention cover the various sources of pollution from ships and provide an overarching framework for… …
4Space Corps Directives — The Space Corps Directives are a running joke from the British sitcom Red Dwarf. The Space Corps is somewhat analogous to Star Trek ’s Starfleet and is responsible for the administrative organisation of all space travel in the Red Dwarf Universe; …
5Pet passport — The Pet Travel Scheme ( PETS ) is a scheme which allows animals to travel easily between member countries without undergoing quarantine. A Pet Passport is a document that officially records information related to a specific animal, as part of… …
6Food safety in the People's Republic of China — Food safety is a growing concern in Chinese agriculture. China s principal crops are rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, and cotton in addition to apples and other fruits and vegetables. [USDA. [http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/china/keystatistics.htm… …
7Light brown apple moth controversy — The Light brown apple moth ( Epiphyas postvittana , often abbreviated to LBAM) is a leafroller moth belonging to the lepidopteran family Tortricidae. The insect is regarded as an herbivorous generalist, and the larvae consume numerous… …
82008 Chinese milk scandal — For timeline of events in the contamination, see Timeline of the 2008 Chinese milk scandal. Stripped shelves in a supermarket in China as a result of the contamination (September 2008) The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a food safety incident in… …
9public health — public health, adj. health services to improve and protect community health, esp. sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine. [1610 20] * * * Science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized… …
10Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law — The Extra Terrestrial Exposure Law (14 C.F.R. §1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations) was the popular name for a United States administrative regulation promulgated in 1969 to prevent the spread of biological contamination from space.… …
