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What Are Biosafety Cabinets? by Cleo Gib
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What Are Biosafety Cabinets? |
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Health
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During different types of testing and experiments, the need to protect your samples, personnel, and product from different environmental properties and bio-hazards can be very important. Even routine procedures can be full of different ways to cross-contaminate your samples. There are ways to avoid the ability of cross-contamination and rule out many different bio-hazards. Biosafety cabinet testing is the most productive way. The specifics of laboratory work can be of very critical nature. The need for this laboratory work to be protected is understood by various organizations around the world. Thus emerged the invention of biosafety cabinets (containment cabinets). There are different classes among biosafety cabinets, but the overall adequacy of any containment cabinet should be tested and confirmed by a professional hygienist or qualified safety officer. The Overall Purpose of the Biosafety (Containment) Cabinets Running a test or experiment in a completely controlled environment may be more complicated than one may think. Cross-contamination can be one of the most awful things to happen when you are trying to conduct testing. Biosafety cabinets were created for the purpose of keeping running tests in a controlled environment free of bio-hazards and unwanted contaminants. Overall, biosafety (containment) cabinets were built to provide three different types of protection. - Protection for personnel against harmful agents inside of the biosafety cabinet.
- Protection for the product to avoid contamination of the work, experiment, or process.
- Environmental protection from contaminants contained within the biosafety cabinet.
Biosafety (containment) cabinets are broken up into three containment classifications. Classification is an important part to any process when dealing with harsh chemicals. The biosafety cabinet testing classifications are determined by the level of biosafety. The levels also relate to different containment capabilities and performance attributes. Biosafety cabinets are also required to pass field certification before putting the cabinet into use.
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