• Question: Does you're work save lives?

    Asked by Acrazypanda to Michael, Mark, Chris on 15 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by eden.theobald.
    • Photo: Mark Dougherty

      Mark Dougherty answered on 15 Nov 2015:

      Not really… but when we make beans we have to cook them to make sure we kill all the bugs so we can leave them on supermarket shelves all year. If we don’t cook them at high enough temperatures or for long enough some bugs might survive! So if I didn’t do my job people somebody could get ill.

      So I don’t save lives but I do stop people getting food poisoned!

    • Photo: Michael Sulu

      Michael Sulu answered on 19 Nov 2015:

      My work doesn’t save lives, but it does lead to something that might!

      As a process engineer, someone has already made a small amount of the medicine that could be used to save lives, but making a small amount usually means that it is too expensive to use as a medicine, i investigate ways of making the medicine more economically so that everyone is able access it and not just the rich!

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