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Team:Bielefeld-Germany/HumanPractice/Biosafety Motivation
From 2013.igem.org
Biosafety Motivation
Abstract
One important part of our project is to design safety systems. It is essential to reduce risks which could possibly endanger environment or public. Especially in Germany genetic is always in the media present. The German public is very critical referred to genetic engineering in food. A [http://www.gentechnikfreie-regionen.de/hintergruende/studien/umfragen.html survey] was published which shows that ¾ of the thousand asked Germans want etiquettes which declare if a product is produced without genetic engineering. When these consumers had the opportunity to choose between two products, one with the etiquette and one without it, they would prefer buying the one with the declaration. “Die Welt”, a big German news agency, published 2012 an [http://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article112053115/Deutschland-versperrt-sich-dem-Fortschritt.html article] about the fact that Germany should use the genetic engineering and should not defeat it. The German public is frightened about genetic because they didn’t know much about it. Movies strengthen this fear when showing that genetic engineered is a huge risk which can infiltrate whole continents. Our aim is to inform the German society that genetic engineering is a huge advantage which has got unused potential if it is applied responsibly. Because of this we organized a Synbioday with other German iGEM teams. We asked the public about synthetic biology and what they think about genetic engineering. The results about our survey are listened here.
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