Safety and Procedures
This is a set of instructions to correctly perform a procedure, and is not standard to another unit.
What is SOP?
Glassware with slanted sides and narrow opening to allow swirling and mixing of contents.
What is an Erlenmeyer flask?
This agency requires employees be trained in the safe use of hazardous materials and general lab safety.
What is OSHA?
This agency requires employees to wear proper PPE.
What is OSHA?
This is the color on an HMIS label that represents health hazards.
What is blue?
This type of lab is present within most government agencies and require extensive training.
What is BSL 3 and 4?
Measures volumes of 1 mL or less; set at fixed volume; least accurate when it is used to measure a volume at the bottom or beginning of its range
What is a micropipette?
This agency regulates GMOs in the food supply.
What is the FDA?
This agency works with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts.
What is EPA?
This term has become a synonym for research fraud.
What is "painting the mice"?
If the FDA accepts a product for use in medicine, its manufacture would be performed under a _________. This is ensure that quality and safety of the product.
What is a GMP?
Used to store solutions, many shapes and sizes, plastic or glass.
What is a reagent bottle?
This agency regulates how companies generate and dispose of their waste.
What is the EPA?
This agency protects public health by assuring the safety and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.
What is FDA?
Convert 500 grams to kilograms.
What is 0.5 kilograms?
This type of lab is present at colleges; at this level, microorganisms are not known to cause disease to "healthy" people
What is a BSL-1?
Large cylindrical glassware with a flat bottom, wide mouth, and pour spout; used for approximation
What is a beaker?
This agency plays a role in overseas aid programs by providing surplus food to developing countries.
What is the USDA?
This agency provides nutrition education.
What is USDA?
Biotechnology career; works under the supervision of a scientist and is responsible for carrying out the hands-on work involved in laboratory work, such as setting up assays, using instrumentation, and recording data
What is a laboratory technician?
A company developing a new food additive would need to generate data from trials on the safety of the additive, and this testing would be performed under a ________. This will ensure consistency and reliability of data.
What is GLP?
Used to accurately prepare a standard volume of a solution; narrow neck with a fixed volume; good for storage
What is a volumetric flask?
What is the FDA?
This law was passed by the FDA. This law provides federal inspection of meat products and forbids the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.
What is The Pure Food and Drug Act?
Biotechnology career; performs all levels of biomedical research from analyzing blood samples to designing and overseeing clinical drug trials.
What is a clinical scientist?