Team:Tartu TUIT/Safety
Safety is a very important aspect of our project.
We are working in Biosafety Level 1 laboratory with the organisms belonging to the white list.
All lab team members have successfully passed safety and security training and are constantly supervised and guided by our instructors. While working in the lab all team members strictly follow the norms and regulations of the Institute of Technology, strictly follow the rules of Biohazard waste disposal.
If the strain we developed will be further used in industrial bioreactors we need to consider possible risks to humans and the environment.
If the strain we developed will be further used in industrial bioreactors we need to consider possible risks to humans and the environment.
Organism
We use a non-pathogenic organism that belongs to the white list to make the working process safer.
Inducer
The promoter we use in our project is not suitable for the large scale production as beta Estradiol is harmful to animals and humans if exposed in large quantities to the environment. So we assume that in the future, we will interchange beta Estradiol inducible promoter to light-inducible promoter, which is safer, more robust and upscaled to industrial usage.
Autolytic strain
Due to the fact that our strain is designed to autolyze itself, we believe that even if it escapes to the environment, it will not survive there.