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Biosafety beyond the laws : Neuza Antunes Rodrigues
How do we define biosafety?
"bio" in Greek
means life , "safety" means
be safe for a particular
action that will cause a problem
to our health, to the environment, to life itself.
It's something that comes to meet a process
that cares about all aspects of health, as it were.
So, biosafety has this function: working
for the completeness of being, this is what I understand
about biosafety.
Biosafety is just about the rules and regulations?
I believe that the laws
are very important, inclusive it exists to regulate
what should be properly done, but I think
that is not only about the laws. We have so many,
laws about biosafety or biosecurity. Biosafety, for example
in occupational health, we have, in worldwide,
several laws and I wonder if having so many laws,
why we have registered so many accidents? Right?
And why do we do not care about each other?
Why do we do not care about our own security
within our occupational life and of our life outside
this environment. So, I think not only the laws
but what you have in your personal formation
so it is very important we apply
our efforts in training people, in teaching
people about biosafety. I think this is much more important
than putting people to memorize laws, since it is always
changing along of our lives and
I think we need to focus on training people in this scope.
What precautions an iGEM team must take care?
Well, I think one of the first steps is to know well
the organism that you are working, right?
What are the implications that this organism can bring
to the operator, for people who is
in that cohort, let me see...
what the implications this may cause to the environment...
How I am going to contain this microorganism,
this genetic material to it do not
incurs... to do not fall in nature and start to causing
some damage, as it were.
So, it is to know what precautions a person
must have to work with such organims. And then, we can think in
biosafety practices, which are precations with the operator
the adequate clothes, gloves, the contention of
these organisms, how to manage residues
produced for manipulating
this organims, as it were. So, how will I contain this
to keep it confined, for it does not be free
to do something that was
not expected by the researcher, or by the igem team, for example.
And you should study the biosafety levels of that organism.
About the biosecurity level... What is the biosafety level?
Is it biosafety level one? There is a care. Is it two, three ...
You have to read and keep yourself informed about
what are the levels of biosafety, because this is already essured
on legislation we are following: CTNBio
National Technical Commission on Biosafety, where there is the
laws and what are the biosafety levels. You can also look for this in
World Health Organization, which has also described what
are the biosafety levels of which you should know.
What is your opinion on the garage labs?
That's it
in the last Biosafety Congress, in 2010
no, 2011, this was a discussion very...
well, that all groups
both national and international had
Because they talked about this new event of singularity
that is presented today in science and telling
some researchers and two of them researchers
has a organization called Plan B,
they presented a work in the U.S
showing people already doing science this way,
using his own residence to do research
people use their own room in the house to do this kind of work
But I think ...
I think it has to be presented in any way for the scientific community
because if it is science it must have to be presented to the scientific community
And the scientific community has the means to
validate if it is really
a science that will bring benefit to humanity
else, I can't imagine how it will achieve market a product
done without a science sieve
not pass without the
presentation of the care he took for this to be done
I keep thinking that suddenly he does something, if he has a ethics
sense, an awareness of
biosafety he may think
and model it, but he'll have to seek an important group,
people who represents this scientific
community or even submit it to the government,
That's it, to market this
he will have to present this
in an ethical and safe way