Team:XMU-China/Safety1

Project Safety

Biosafety Standards and Institutions

Xiamen University has its own biosafety rules that are regulated by the Ministry of Environment Protection, P.R. China and our institution. We carried out our experiments and evaluated bio-safety issues in our iGEM project strictly according to the Chinese Pathogenic Microbiology Laboratory Bio-safety Regulations, 2004, P.R. China.

Environmental Safety

We only used nonpathogenic Escherichia. Coli(DH5α and BL21(wild type)) to be host cell, which is a biosafety level 1 organism in our project. However, Escherichia. Coli (DH5α and BL21) can survive departing from the lab. Inasmuch as , we disinfect the discard raffinate strictly to deal with it.

Biosafety Training

Every member of our laboratory received biosafety training before the project began. It included general laboratory safety, biosafety and hazardous and chemical spill training. These training sessions were put on by the code of practice and the local guidelines, and including the safety and operations manual as well. Furthermore, every member of the iGEM team was trained by our iGEM graduate student instructors on proper laboratory techniques and safety procedures.

1. List and describe all new or modified coding regions you will be using in your project. (If you use parts from the 2013 iGEM Distribution without modifying them, you do not need to list those parts.)