“We had to trash everything and start from scratch!” 😩
A sentence, we hear far too often in cell culture labs. 😑
It’s neither bad luck nor bad fate, oftentimes it is simply 👉bad practice. Most contaminations – even if they are not recurrent – are the result of bad practice or a lack of knowledge. 🤷🏻♀️
❌ 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 🛑 stop debating the time and cost of training and 📊 start calculating the cost of not training. 👈👀☝️
#GCCP #Contamination #CellCulture #Resources #CostOfNotTraining
Author: asban