Team:Wageningen UR/Safety
We have tried hard to make Xylencer safe for both society and environment as well as the end-user. We
have spoken about our project with many experts on both biosafety and biosecurity, to make Xylencer safe
for society and the environment. We also presented at the “SafeChassis” biosafety workshop to have a dialogue with a whole array of stakeholders and experts in the field. We discussed the application of genetically modified organisms and their predicted possible impact in certain areas. We used these conversations
to also discuss the social implications of our improved bacteriophage therapy. A detailed description of
our findings can be found at the following pages:
In our section on biosafety we discuss our risk assessment of the four
pillars of
Xylencer. Besides this, we focus on biocontainment strategies. For biosecurity, we discuss the definition of Dual-Use Research of Concern
and
the relationship with Xylencer. In this section, we discuss the practices we implemented to make sure all our
lab
workers were safe. We joined a Safe-by-Design challenge hosted by the RIVM to learn how to
incorporate safety in the design process. The final infographic that we made is incorporated here.
Besides safety, we also discuss the ethical aspect of our technology. You can
find more information on the Ethics page.Safety
Overview
Bio-Safety
Bio-security
Lab Safety
Safe-by-Design
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