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In our lab there is a safety training for everyone which covered the following aspects:

1. Personal peripheral wear: Lab coat and gloves must be worn all the time during work. Personnel must wash their hands after experiments, or before they leave the laboratory working areas. Open-toed footwear must not be worn in laboratories. Eating, drinking, smoking, applying cosmetics, handling contact lenses and sleeping are prohibited in the laboratory working areas.

2. Chemical safety: We printed "Dos and don'ts when using hazardous chemicals" and posted them on marked place. Students are trained to use dry powder extinguishers and carbon dioxide fire extinguishers in our lab.

3. GMO safety: No biological materials are allowed to be brought out of our lab. Strains must be put into death before dumping.

4. Study of guidelines: We listed some biosafety websites used for team member education:

Figure 1. Lab safety seminar

Govern biosafety in research laboratories:
http://english.biosafety.gov.cn/

Biosafety guidelines of our institution:
http://swx.hzau.edu.cn/

Regulations that govern biosafety in research laboratories:
http://english.biosafety.gov.cn/

Our lab locates in the building for School of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University. An access controlling system prevents unauthorized person from entering, and one has to show the student ID card to get into the door. Our biological wastes are managed by trained stuff, therefore will not enter the water body or contaminate the outside environment.

Figure 2. Door access control

Here we illustrate that our 2018 project did not involve human experimentation, gene drive, use of animals, or use of any parts from risk group 4 organisms. Our compliance with the “Do Not Release”, “Deletions as Modification” and “Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR)” policies is demonstrated above, as we always take care of what we use and never let experimental organisms with resistance plasmid or genome modification out of the lab alive without handling. As for the Human Subject Research policy, our survey is basically about the public’s opinions or attitude towards newly emerged cancer treatments, which barely involved any ethical issues. Nevertheless, we referred to the “Guidelines on Ethical Review of Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (NHFPC, 2016)” and the “International Guidelines on Market Views, Social Surveys and Data Analysis (ICC/ESOMAR, 2016)” before designing the questionnaire, for the protection of the public. All the safety rules are also obeyed; see previous descriptions.

1. Understanding Biosecurity; National research council of The National Academics, Rita r. Colwell

2. Laboratory biosecurity guidance; World Health Organization, September 2006, WHO/CDS/EPR/2006.6

3. Laboratory biosafety manual, Third edition; World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004