Contamination In The Workplace: Case Study

1. The biggest potential source of contamination of the locations we tested in the Distribution of Microorganisms would have to be the floor of the lab. The reason why this is the biggest potential source of contamination is because multiple people are coming in everyday from the outside world, bringing in microorganisms from the outside into the lab. And although we sanitize the counter and all the spaces that we work around, we don’t take precautions to necessarily clean the floor, making it the biggest source of contamination. And as clearly shown in the data on page 43, there were so many organisms that we just couldn’t count them all, making it the biggest source of contamination we had during this exercise.
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