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They divide it into 3 categories
{{bq|* Large-scale negative pathogenic effects in humans;<br>* Destructive impacts on Earth's ecological systems or environments; and<br>* Toxic and other effects attributable to microbes, their cellular structures, or extracellular products.}}[http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12576&page=45 (page 45)]
They conclude that the last one is unlikely. But for the other two
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To deal with issues of the novelty of the facilities and of human error, the studies recommended that the receiving facility is operational and the staff trained several years before the Mars samples are brought into Earth's environment. The 2008 report of the IMARS working group report detailed a total of twelve years from initial planning to lander launch.<ref name=imars>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130124081409/http://mepag.nasa.gov/reports/iMARS_FinalReport.pdf Preliminary Planning for an International Mars Sample Return Mission] Report of the International Mars Architecture for the Return of Samples (iMARS) Working Group, June 1, 2008</ref> Three architectural firms were approached who provided preliminary plans, the FLAD, IDC and LAS plans, the last of these, the LAS has a fully robotic work force to handle the samples.<ref>Jeremy Hsu [http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/3329/keeping-mars-contained Keeping Mars Contained] Astrobiology Magazine 12/03/09</ref><ref>Beaty DW, Allen CC, Bass DS, Buxbaum KL, Campbell JK, Lindstrom DJ, Miller SL, Papanastassiou DA. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19845446?report=abstract Planning considerations for a Mars Sample Receiving Facility: summary and interpretation of three design studies.] Astrobiology. 2009 Oct;9(8):745-58. doi: 10.1089/ast.2009.0339.</ref><ref>[http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5563&page=31 Mars Sample Return: Issues and Recommendations](1997)] Task Group on Issues in Sample Return, National Research Council (page 31)</ref>
They were not asked to consider human factors and so do not report on ways to mitigate these, except to suggest that care must be taken to minimize human interaction with the sample.<ref name=esf2012_PP-human-factors>{{cite report |title=Mars Sample Return backward contamination - strategic advice |publisher= European Science Foundation |year=2012 |chapter=4.7 Potential verification methods"|
===Concerns about incubation period===
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