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          <p>When we wanted to deliver our DNA sample, we were rejected by many express company. The reason why they rejected us was that they need our bio-safety assessment report of our sample. Sending our samples to quantified company to assess was so costly and the long process that we even couldn’t afford. In order to send our parts legally and make the process easily, we investigated professor, related government departments and the relevant legal codes.</p>
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             <p align=right><i>— Peter Carr, Director of Judging</i></p>
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            <p>We found some policies and laws about biosafety and biological products transportation in China.Here’s a list of part of them.<br><B>2005 No. 45 Command of Ministry of Health, PRC</B><br>Transportation management regulations of highly pathogenic microorganism bacterium or samples which can infect humans.</p>
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             <p>This year, we tried our best to interact with the people and institutions we touched, in order to make our project have effect on them, then affect the larger range and even the whole world. Through communicating with professors, we got the most direct information about our project, including the background, research progress and contingent risks, which made us have a more profound realization on our work. Through communicating with other teams, we got a new understanding of our own project and widen our scope of knowledge. What’s more, we found our WeChat Official Account Admin Platform and facebook page to share the knowledge of SynBio and iGEM. It is a public welfare behavior that offer a convenient access for the public to know the brand new world of biology.</p>
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            <P><B>2006 No. 50 Command of Ministry of Health, PRC</B><br>Biological safety management methods of examination and approval for laboratory and experimental activities about highly pathogenic microorganisms which can spared through human.</P>
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             <p>Another work we are proud of is transportation of biological product. An obvious matter for iGEM team is that the transportation always cost much time and money. To find a legal way to solve this problem, we consulted the officers of Qingdao Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission (QMHFPC) and Qingdao Customs District. Meanwhile, we also interviewed some express companies to know their attitudes to the personal biological product shipment. We found that many of them refused to delivery it in order to avoid the risk of policy and safety, which made it hard for iGEM team to send parts. While, we successfully solved this through cooperation with biotechnology company. And we made a protocol about the transportation which we considered it as a guidance to other teams. </p>
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             <p><B>2009 No. 68 Command of Ministry of Health, PRC</B><br>Biological safety management methods of culture preservation.</p>
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             <P><B>No. 8 Command of Ministry of Agriculture, PRC</B><br>It contain measures for the administration of agricultural genetically modified organism safety evaluation, safety classification of genetically modified crops, management and security monitoring of experiment.</P>
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            <P><B>No. 9 Command of Ministry of Agriculture, PRC</B><br>It contain import safety measures for the administration of agricultural genetically modified organisms, such as import and export formalities for examination and approval of agricultural GMOs used to study and test, produce and used as a feedstock.</P>
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            <P><B>No.160 Command of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, PRC</B><br>These regulations for the entry and exit health quarantine on special goods are carried out from this March, which don’t involve scientific research. While the original regulations mentioned that and gave a list of documents needed to declare./P>
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            <h3>Professor</h3>
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            <P>Our instructor, Yan Wang, with particular understanding about our project, thinks that the project design meets the requirements of safety, for the reason that all our parts got from Risk Group 1 and are not related to pathogenicity. What’s more, he remind us to sterilize and don’t carry the biological products out of the lab.</P>
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            <h3>Government</h3>
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            <P>After our investigation, we decided to interview the government to receive the explanation of the unclear policies and laws. We tried to connect with Qingdao Municipal Government, Qingdao Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, General Administration of Customs, Qingdao Custom District, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of PRC, Shandong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau etc. And finally had interviews of Qingdao Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, Qingdao Custom District and Shandong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.</P>
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             <P>Qingdao Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission told us that all labs related to pathogenic microorganism in Qingdao are under supervision of them according to biological safety management of the related provisions of the state. In recent years, there is no case about pathogenic microorganism transportation in Qingdao, if there will be, it must obey 2005 No. 45 Command of Ministry of Health, PRC. To avoid loss of human genetic resource, import of hazardous substance and ensure public health security, our country have strict administrative provisions, so there is no efficient way of examination and approval.</P>
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            <P>Officer of Qingdao Custom District told us gave us some advices. There is a fact that we, individuals, have many limitation in biological products transportation. Declaring the dry DNA at custom is a way to do it. But it always need many document from lab manager, university, and third party inspection agency inspection, if necessary, the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau will have a spot check, which will take about a month. Or we can entrust our samples to biotechnology company and send aboard.</P>
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                            <span><center>fig.1. We had an interview with Qingdao Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.</center></span>
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            <h2>Current situation</h2>
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            <h3>The absence of relative laws</h3>
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            <P>Biological product transportation is a kind of sensitive topic for almost all countries, which make it a complicated-formalities affair. In China, there are a few policies and laws about it, but all of them refer to merchandise trade is, there is a vacuum in scientific research. This situation make it a blur for many related departments and express companies. Because of it, many iGEM teams take a delusive way in transportation.</P>
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            <h3>The cost of assessment is unaffordable</h3>
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            <P>Sending biological product to biosafety assessment company to assess the biosecurity once costs at least 500 RMB and a month in Qingdao, Shandong. A month is a long period for a team to send our parts to iGEM Foundation in time. What’s more, 500RMB once is a large amount of money for most teams.</P>
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            <h2>Solution</h2>
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            <P>When we in the dilemma, we found a solution to the transportation, which was a legal way without fraudulent description of goods. We successfully reached cooperation with GENEWIZE. They helped us extract plasmids and sequencing the samples we wanted to send to iGEM Foundation. On one hand, our parts were sent in a convenient and legal way, on the other hand, GENEWIZE could make sure our samples’ sequences were correct without any safety problems. It deserved to be mentioned that the biological productions in GENEWIZ were also need to be assessed the biosecurity.</P>
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            <P>Based on our investigation and our own successful experience, we made a protocol about the transportation to offer help if any team need.</P>
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          <h2>Protocol</h2>
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          <h3>Plan A</h3>
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          <P><B>Step 1: </B>Send the sample to biosafety assessment company, for example Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry (SRICI) and wait the report.</P>
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          <p><B>Step 2:</B> If the report says that sample is safe, and then take the sample with the report to the express company. After normal procedure, you can deliver your sample to iGEM Foundation</p>
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          <h3>Plan B</h3>
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          <P>Just one step!</P>
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          <P>Cooperate with a biotechnology company. You can negotiate with the company how many work they will do. And the most important point is that they will help you to assess and transport without the long period. </P>
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          <P>It’s very easy, convenient, fast!</P>
  
 
              
 
              
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Transportation

Problems

When we wanted to deliver our DNA sample, we were rejected by many express company. The reason why they rejected us was that they need our bio-safety assessment report of our sample. Sending our samples to quantified company to assess was so costly and the long process that we even couldn’t afford. In order to send our parts legally and make the process easily, we investigated professor, related government departments and the relevant legal codes.

More details about our investigation

Laws

We found some policies and laws about biosafety and biological products transportation in China.Here’s a list of part of them.
2005 No. 45 Command of Ministry of Health, PRC
Transportation management regulations of highly pathogenic microorganism bacterium or samples which can infect humans.

2006 No. 50 Command of Ministry of Health, PRC
Biological safety management methods of examination and approval for laboratory and experimental activities about highly pathogenic microorganisms which can spared through human.

2009 No. 68 Command of Ministry of Health, PRC
Biological safety management methods of culture preservation.

No. 8 Command of Ministry of Agriculture, PRC
It contain measures for the administration of agricultural genetically modified organism safety evaluation, safety classification of genetically modified crops, management and security monitoring of experiment.

No. 9 Command of Ministry of Agriculture, PRC
It contain import safety measures for the administration of agricultural genetically modified organisms, such as import and export formalities for examination and approval of agricultural GMOs used to study and test, produce and used as a feedstock.

No.160 Command of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, PRC
These regulations for the entry and exit health quarantine on special goods are carried out from this March, which don’t involve scientific research. While the original regulations mentioned that and gave a list of documents needed to declare./P>

Professor

Our instructor, Yan Wang, with particular understanding about our project, thinks that the project design meets the requirements of safety, for the reason that all our parts got from Risk Group 1 and are not related to pathogenicity. What’s more, he remind us to sterilize and don’t carry the biological products out of the lab.

Government

After our investigation, we decided to interview the government to receive the explanation of the unclear policies and laws. We tried to connect with Qingdao Municipal Government, Qingdao Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, General Administration of Customs, Qingdao Custom District, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of PRC, Shandong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau etc. And finally had interviews of Qingdao Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, Qingdao Custom District and Shandong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.

Qingdao Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission told us that all labs related to pathogenic microorganism in Qingdao are under supervision of them according to biological safety management of the related provisions of the state. In recent years, there is no case about pathogenic microorganism transportation in Qingdao, if there will be, it must obey 2005 No. 45 Command of Ministry of Health, PRC. To avoid loss of human genetic resource, import of hazardous substance and ensure public health security, our country have strict administrative provisions, so there is no efficient way of examination and approval.

Officer of Qingdao Custom District told us gave us some advices. There is a fact that we, individuals, have many limitation in biological products transportation. Declaring the dry DNA at custom is a way to do it. But it always need many document from lab manager, university, and third party inspection agency inspection, if necessary, the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau will have a spot check, which will take about a month. Or we can entrust our samples to biotechnology company and send aboard.

fig.1. We had an interview with Qingdao Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.

Current situation

The absence of relative laws

Biological product transportation is a kind of sensitive topic for almost all countries, which make it a complicated-formalities affair. In China, there are a few policies and laws about it, but all of them refer to merchandise trade is, there is a vacuum in scientific research. This situation make it a blur for many related departments and express companies. Because of it, many iGEM teams take a delusive way in transportation.

The cost of assessment is unaffordable

Sending biological product to biosafety assessment company to assess the biosecurity once costs at least 500 RMB and a month in Qingdao, Shandong. A month is a long period for a team to send our parts to iGEM Foundation in time. What’s more, 500RMB once is a large amount of money for most teams.

Solution

When we in the dilemma, we found a solution to the transportation, which was a legal way without fraudulent description of goods. We successfully reached cooperation with GENEWIZE. They helped us extract plasmids and sequencing the samples we wanted to send to iGEM Foundation. On one hand, our parts were sent in a convenient and legal way, on the other hand, GENEWIZE could make sure our samples’ sequences were correct without any safety problems. It deserved to be mentioned that the biological productions in GENEWIZ were also need to be assessed the biosecurity.

Based on our investigation and our own successful experience, we made a protocol about the transportation to offer help if any team need.

Protocol

Plan A

Step 1: Send the sample to biosafety assessment company, for example Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry (SRICI) and wait the report.

Step 2: If the report says that sample is safe, and then take the sample with the report to the express company. After normal procedure, you can deliver your sample to iGEM Foundation

Plan B

Just one step!

Cooperate with a biotechnology company. You can negotiate with the company how many work they will do. And the most important point is that they will help you to assess and transport without the long period.

It’s very easy, convenient, fast!