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Downstairs in the lab, the stools are processed inside of a bio safety cabinet with an airflow curtain, which prevents contamination in either direction. Prior to that it's mixed with a saline solution, and run through a machine whose technical name is probably not a poop smasher, but does basically just that."It comes out looking like a chocolate milkshake consistency," Burgess said. It's processed in a plastic bag with a sort of strainer, that draws out the useable liquid and leaves behind corn, and other undigested leftovers. Then it's separated into bottles which are kept in a -80C fridge for months, where they wait for donors to pass a second round of screening. If all goes well, it's packed up in boxes filled with dry ice, and shipped out for use around the country. OpenBiome also in the process of perfecting a capsule-delivery system, which, common sense to the contrary, is a considerably more pleasant way to ingest poop than having it blasted up your butt.Burgess gives me the impression that it's all pretty straightforward. "The complexity comes in when dealing with donors, trying to find healthy people, and keep on top of their health. Anyone can blend poop—we didn't invent that. The hard part is finding good donors and getting all the poop you can from them.""Ever since I can remember I've loved to poop, and often dreamt, like most young girls do, of making money from my excrement."
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