Comment · Sun, January 26, 2020
Is there a chance of viral contamination in any batches sent to you? If so, how is this addressed?
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johnnycoconut · 1 points
I know that there are standard ways to detect bacterial and fungal contamination in the lab. Do these or other methods work for viruses?
I am compelled to ask this by the novel coronavirus situation that's mostly in parts of China, but it's possible that anyone who's sick with even ordinary flu or the common cold at some lab somewhere could introduce contagious viruses by being sloppy. I don't know how well viruses survive in powders. I imagine it depends on the powder.
If there's already a post about this somewhere, I'd love to see it. I used the search function and didn't find anything relevant in this subreddit or recent comments by MYASD.
Thanks in advance.
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AromaticAminoAcid · 3 points
Sounds like a great place to work! I'm jealous.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
I think so, but I am biased. LOL. When I was a consultant before this, I got to get inside hundreds of companies around the world, from small mom and pops to mega conglomerates with hundreds of offices spread around the planet. I got a glimpse inside tons of not just US companies, but also ones in places like the UK, Canada, Australia, India, Russia, Slovakia, Germany, the Czech Republic, Singapore, Egypt, UAE, Turkey, Mexico, and South Africa. I got to see a ton of different styles of business structure; what worked and didn't work. The one common constant for what didn't work was companies that treated their employees like shit. You can make a lot of things work if your people are happy and healthy. That can be a challenge in some aspects, but it doesn't take a genius to know what NOT to do. Haha