Woman wearing white lab coat holding up and looking at a cell culture flask with yellow cell culture medium with bacterial contamination.

β€œWe had to trash everything and start from scratch!” 😩

A sentence, we hear far too often in cell culture labs. πŸ˜‘

It’s neither bad luck nor bad fate, oftentimes it is simply πŸ‘‰bad practice. Most contaminations – even if they are not recurrent – are the result of bad practice or a lack of knowledge. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

❌ inappropriate pipetting techniques

❌ shared equipment and reagents

❌ cross-facility equipment use

❌ insufficient laboratory training

all contribute to the occurrence of contaminations.

At some point, we need to πŸ›‘ stop debating the time and cost of training and πŸ“Š start calculating the cost of not training. πŸ‘ˆπŸ‘€β˜οΈ

 

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Author: asban