3.Specific bio-risk and safety concerns. Though biosafety could be an issue with bioremediation, most process use non pathogenic naturally occurring organisms. The risk from sewage works are probably significantly greater than those from bioremediation processes because they do involve human pathogens. Lack of education of property owners over the benefits of bioremediation in spite of good work by Biowise. Most problem holder would not want to do this.
Contamination means liabilities and have a direct effect on the financial health of the company.
Only open minded problem holders would operate this way and would probably have a solution in mind before entering into the discussion. The microbial populations which exist on contaminated sites are often much more effective and stable at degrading the compounds found there. Bringing GMOs on to a site will bring an extra risk, whether real or perceived, and this will significantly reduce the land value of the site. When CLEA is released, it will be important that the UK restricts its use to human risk assessment and local authorities are not drawn into using one receptor based model. We need to know what plans are afoot for risk assessment where the receptors are not humans.