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          <div class="sub header">For improving our project and get further feedback, we’ve visited several government agencies and a private enterprises.</div>
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                <p>We got to know how dioxin is being test in food and they gave us suggestions on many things list below:</p>
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At iGEM we believe societal considerations should be upfront and integrated throughout the design and execution of synthetic biology projects. “Human Practices” refers to iGEM teams’ efforts to actively consider how the world affects their work and the work affects the world. Through your Human Practices activities, your team should demonstrate how you have thought carefully and creatively about whether your project is responsible and good for the world. We invite you to explore issues relating (but not limited) to the ethics, safety, security, and sustainability of your project, and to show how this exploration feeds back into your project purpose, design and execution.
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                    <sup>-</sup> degradation should be test of the toxicity.</li>
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<li>descriptions of <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Human_Practices/Examples">exemplary work</a> to inspire you</li>
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<p>On this page, your team should document all of your Human Practices work and activities. You should write about the Human Practices topics you considered in your project, document any activities you conducted to explore these topics (such as engaging with experts and stakeholders), describe why you took a particular approach (including referencing any work you built upon), and explain if and how you integrated takeaways from your Human Practices work back into your project purpose, design and/or execution. </p>
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<p>If your team has gone above and beyond in work related to safety, then you should document this work on your Safety wiki page and provide a description and link on this page. If your team has developed education and public engagement efforts that go beyond a focus on your particular project, and for which would like to nominate your team for the Best Education and Public Engagement Special Prize, you should document this work on your Education and Education wiki page and provide a description and link here. </p>
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<p>The iGEM judges will review this page to assess whether you have met the Silver and/or Gold medal requirements based on the Integrated Human Practices criteria listed below. If you nominate your team for the <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Judging/Awards">Best Integrated Human Practices Special Prize</a> by filling out the corresponding field in the <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Judging/Judging_Form">judging form</a>, the judges will also review this page to consider your team for that prize.
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                  extremely high temperature. They’re interested in the method using in our project, microorganism method.
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              <p>Thanks to ShanghaiTech iGEM team for visiting the company and bringing our questions to get feedback as below:</p>
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                <br>A: By testing the quantity of the chemical aimed in degradation.</p>
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Integrated Human Practices
For improving our project and get further feedback, we’ve visited several government agencies and a private enterprises.

Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute(TACTRI)

We got to know how dioxin is being test in food and they gave us suggestions on many things list below:

  1. How we can do on pretreatment of samples.
  2. Testing enzyme activity after protein purification.
  3. Break down product by using isotope method.
  4. We’re doing experiment on level of ppm, which is capable of testing dioxin in soil but not in food.
  5. Dioxin that had gone through Cl - degradation should be test of the toxicity.
  6. Testing dioxin using biological or microorganism method is still under breakthrough. However, once the method is applied, it is sure to be the best compared with heat and chemical methods.
EPA Environmental Inspection

From the agency, we had feedback as followed:

  1. We got to know how dioxin is being test in environmental level.
  2. Chemical method is used to test the concentration of dioxin.
Houli Refuse Incinerator Plant

We saw how garbage is being burned down and in order to avoid the production of dioxin(250 ℃ ~400 ℃ is especially significant), temperature is being controlled. In addition to this, after garbage is fully burned, two chemicals are formed: incinerator bottom ash and fly ash. Fly ash should be carefully coped with. They use active charcoal to stabilize fly ash and cleaned out with bottom ash together. Product such as brick is made by mixing ashes with concrete.

The major method using in the incinerator is heat method, as mentioned previously, breaking down dioxin by extremely high temperature. They’re interested in the method using in our project, microorganism method. Since dioxin is hydrophobic, it appears in soil most of the time. If we can successfully applied our method by phytoremediation, plant would be able to be cropped and break down dioxin in a nature way.

China Petrochemical Development Corporation

We got the permission to enter the most dioxin-polluted area in the world and got to know procedures they’re applying to break down dioxin in soil. The major methods are wet method and heat method while microorganism method is still under breakthrough. Since this method is what we’re doing, they are highly interested in and looking forward to our application later in the future. Additionally, we had planted several of our experimental plant ( Vetiveria zizanioides) in the area and will test the concentration of dioxin in the soil to see if the plant is sure to break down dioxin few months later.

Vetiveria zizanioides
Dajing Biological Engineering Company

Thanks to ShanghaiTech iGEM team for visiting the company and bringing our questions to get feedback as below:

Q: The plant Vetiveria zizanioides is an example of phytoremediation. According to this fact, endosymbiotic microorganism should be able to multiply. How do you examine the sample of soil microorganism on the effect of it?
A: By testing the quantity of the chemical aimed in degradation.

Q: Does the application of genetic modified microorganism have environmental concern?
A: We don’t have any applications in this field.