New food production users can certainly learn from the biological safety paradigm

摘要

My introduction into the world of cleanrooms was through the science of biological safety, where the emphasis is on protecting people. The biological safety paradigm is: keep organisms from getting out; contain the ones that have gotten out and minimize the movement of those that were not contained. In practice, we rely on the Class II biological safety cabinet as the most important tool in providing a primary barrier between an infectious organism and human contact. We know through experience and a wealth of epidemiological data and applied microbiological research that a well-maintained biological safety cabinet, when used in conjunction with good microbiological techniques, pro-vides an effective con-tainment system for manipulation of moderate- and high-risk microor-ganisms.