https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_biological_defense_program
…definition laid out in Public Law 101-298, the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.[7] That law defined a biological agent as:[7] any micro-organism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product that may be engineered as a result of biotechnology, or any naturally occurring or bio-engineered component of any such microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product, capable of causing death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism; deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies, or material of any kind …