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Background:

The Odin Case,

Odin send some contaminated samples with its CRISPER kit (subtopics: gereman government said that, is that true? ; CRISPER based even a pathogen)
big issue for german government.
how to prevent these Situation to safe the community in future?
DM (drogerie in germany) had some S2 contaminated soap but there was just a sorry and you got your money back.... thats it,
Illoma-conference avoidence 

Distancing from the sender may be a dangerous strategy: may lead to the authorities perceive that as dodgy

European centre for disease control report in response to ODIN case:
http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/_layouts/forms/Publication_DispForm.aspx?List=4f55ad51-4aed-4d32-b960-af70113dbb90&ID=1692

Recommendation to revise the national policies relating to DIYbio. “As a result of this event, German authorities have prohibited the importation of the kit. National competent authorities in the EU should review the authorisation of this commercial DIY kit (CRISPR-Cas 9) product, or similar ‘citizen science’ biomaterials containing risk-group-1 biological agents to produce genetically modified microorganisms for educational or recreational purposes on the basis of the applicable European and national legislation.”

EU regulations will potentially change now. 

Need to act quickly because the political momentum is now. Rudiger has started a google doc with response (will share on DIY mailing list?). Timeline - 2 weeks? 

Is it a reaction that is politically motivated? Conflation of bioterrorism with DIYbio. Is this just an excuse to shut down DIYbio? If quality assurance is issued, authorities might not care because it’s just a way to shut down something they’re not comfortable with. Longer term lobbying also necessary alongside QA debates. Look to others who have similar concerns? E.g. fermentation culture, organic farmers.


Problem
Shipping
Labelling
Quality control
Power balance
Bioerror
Lack of transparency

General
Too much of a regulatory burden if it moves beyond just products for commercial use. 

Solutions



NOTES FROM ADAM ZARETZKY

CRSPr Zaynor Rudiger Josaih CRSPr hahnenkampf ODIN CRISPR Scheiss
Sent: 100s – 1000s of kits shipped
Regulators Philosophers Artists Biohacker
GMO law - illegal purchase
Ordered the Kit – But did not use it.
Not mixing.
Damage control
Shipping Labelling and Quality Controls not controlled
Bavarian Regulators for grassroots, perhaps certified organic GMO kits?
Labeled Wrongly – Something Wrong – The kit was handed over and 
Pathogens found S2 Pathogens multi-resistant infectious contaminated
Greenpeace sequencing Not Airtight
No quality assurance 
Warnings about DIY kits for public use
Don’t ship to Germany any more
BioPunk NASA PhD Zaynor type 
Sanger Sequencing 
Official Response and personal communication
But no repeal of grungy garage behavior
EU_CDC asked the DIY bio
To do better than accidental soap pathogenic S2 (BL2) recall
FDA Aphis Import-Export Rules very lax, EMBO only export lax
Is this just Rudiger personally pissed that Josiah would be so careless as to send him a bunk kit?
Is the separation of DIY communities into those who have funds and will to do quality control
Worth the rift, a sort of whiney rift in our already disparate communities.
Wouldn’t’ it be more adult to have a food fight staged at a conference?
Hans Jonas – Precautionary Principle technology for harming
Bl1-4 - containment of BioError
Fermentation – mechanism as containment
MI6 are tracking you, if You ship kits, You are promoting bioterrorism
Concept- disorganized collective is not deliberately opaque
Sometimes obfuscation is a tactic
Zaynor wants to go against the world governments in the name of access to GMO.
Has a personality problem, humility vrs narcissism, is also scientism, religiously proGMO
What regulators do with Bio-Rad kits for sale?
Minimal Standards, Regulations, Technical Standards 
We sound like Opium Dealers planning what to do when its legalized 
DIY Decentered – Standards, packaging. Yearly Audit, certified 100% clean drugs.
These kits are for profit but profit is not the motive…
It’s about living dissemination of technoobsession, it’s a CRSPr free advertising for Sangamo stock promotion and GMOs everywhere.
No talk about the effect on the environment from either side,
Crowd sourced peer review. Outside audit manager. Biosafety Officers 
All to insure that the kits are working to make genetic pollution more true to the advertising.
Certified DIY - Co-laboratory Praxis DIYBIO Minimal Quality Control
Safety Standards Registered, garage regulators, hackintegrity, pirate’s code.
If DIY GMOs are grass roots, 
Can we call these organic DIY GMOs.?
If you don’t know what you did, add one level of containment.
Bad batches get you Suspended for a couple of months.
Meanwhile the WAAG says their kits are advertised as novelty pets and toys not to be used
Kit is sent with instruction: you shoundn’t open it, use it, it is only a pet. PetShop funky text.
What is DIY quality control:
Optical 16s sequencing machine and commercial external testing.
At the moment its legal, don’t make it harder than the current legal system.
Stop shitty regulation, and expensive oversight.
Double Amplification… 
Genophobia - Mutaphobia vrs DIYbio
In terms of the The government AntiDIY-BIO predudice.
In terms of Transgenic Germline Human Mutants
What are the shipping protocols, how are they bought and sold, what is the return policy and how is quality germline human mutant difference assured?
Digital Containment
Time Stamp – Lock Chain – Batch Stacked in a library.

Security shipping,