Safety

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Safety

Before answering these questions on your team Safety page, be sure to read the Safety in iGEM page. and the FAQ section below.

Key questions

For iGEM 2012, teams are asked to detail how they approached any issues of biological safety associated with their projects. Specifically, teams should consider the following questions:

  1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:
    • researcher safety,
    • public safety, or
    • environmental safety?
  2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise any safety issues? If yes,
    • did you document these issues in the Registry?
    • how did you manage to handle the safety issue?
    • How could other teams learn from your experience?
  3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?
    • If yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project?
    • If no, which specific biosafety rules or guidelines do you have to consider in your country?
  4. Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?

 

Teams, please document any answers to these safety questions on your wiki safety page. Judges will be asked to evaluate your project, in part, on the basis of if and how you considered and addressed issues of biological safety. If any questions arise regarding iGEM and biological safety please send an email to safety AT igem.org.


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1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:

*Researcher safety
all experiment were carriedin lab, no actual use in life or carried on experimental animals.

*Public Safety
most of the metarial and regent were safe, some toxic chemical were stored by full-time staff。

*Environmental Safety
all Experimental waste were burning immediately separately by specialized agency.

2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise safety issues? If yes,

No. The parts produced by our group have all been promoter BioBrick parts and they do not raise any safety issues.

3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?

The IFC follows the biosafety regulations from the UNAM and in particular the recommendations made by the Environmental Management Unit (http://alexandria60.etcserver.com/~fqugau/residu2_archivos/ddeewsfcss/apoyo.html). A more detailed protocol for identification, evaluation, characterization and disposal of substances which might pose some kind of biological risk can be found here (http://www.biomedicas.unam.mx/_administracion/_unidades_apoyo_inst/manual_bioseguridad.pdf). These regulations include handling of the basic equipment in a laboratory, management and disposal of biological and chemical waste, correct behavior in the laboratory, how to behave in case of laboratory accidents, what to do in case of emergency (i.e. fires, earthquakes) and protection measures. Before we have started our work in the lab, we were given an introductory lecture on the basic safety measurements we have to follow with special focus on the safety level we will be working (Biosafety Level 1). Some of the Mexican regulations on biosafety are summarized here (http://amexbio.org/links.html).

4. Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?

No.

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