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Investigation of Antibiotic Use and
Related Biosafety Issues: What's
happening out there and further.
The respondents all showed adequate levels of understanding in issues concerning possible threats induced by abandoned ARB in the laboratory. Almost equal proportions of respondents pointed out one of the four major consequences, respectively(Q9). Unfortunately, statistics revealed that over one third of the respondents reported that used ARB is never or only occasionally processed in safe and professional ways, and that a considerable portion of them has no special attention paid to the issue (Q5). Besides, results for Question 6 indicated that very few (<3%) laboratory researchers have been clearly informed of how laboratory waste should be processed in their department/organization. Even if they have somehow been informed, they did not pay much attention because they believed that laboratory waste is being appropriately processed. It is interesting that though people know that something like this may have negative effect on our life, they believe that there will be someone else to be responsible for such things. To make matters worse, more than half of the laboratories directly dispose of materials that have been in direct contact with microbes, while some others care little about the matter (Q8). This further adds to the potential danger of pollution and transfer of antibiotic resistance to microbes in the environment. Thus it seems that what is more urgent is not informing researchers of potential safety hazards of ARB but how to strictly and effectively regulate laboratory procedures to prevent these hazards. Most researchers know the consequences of their behavior, but few would take the time and effort to implement the right measures, probably because public health and environment have not yet experienced crises of sufficiently alarming levels, which we strongly wish, of course, to avoid.
Question 5
| A.Almost always discard directly or pour into sewage(15.91%) |
B.Usually discard directly and occasionally process them properly(22.73%) |
C.Usually process them properly but occasionally discard directly(21.59%) |
D.Always properly process them separately with other waste(23.86%) |
E.No special attention has been paid(15.91%) |
Question 6
Question 8
