With most manufacturers providing solid biological safety cabinets (BSCs), total cost of ownership has become a hot-button issue with purchasers. Until around 2000, exhaust fans were driven by AC permanent split capacitor motors. Manufacturers gradua

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the increased availability and reduced cost of electronic air velocity sensors made sensor-based feedback loops a viable solution for biosafety cabinet manufacturers.

Biological safety cabinets should be decontaminated under the following conditions:

Biological safety cabinets should be decontaminated under the following conditions.

The modern Class II Microbiological Safety Cabinet, now regarded as probably the most common in-use Safety Cabinet employed around the world, is available with features meeting the stringent ergonomic and green requirements in many countries.

In order to maintain proper containment, NSF stipulates that recirculating and exhausted airfl ow volumes, and therefore velocities, must be maintained within a tolerance of +/- 5 feet per minute (FPM).

The use of natural gas for Bunsen Burners in a microbiological laboratory has long been an accepted practice over the years. This practice has also carried over to use within a Biological Safety Cabinet (BSC).

Indispensible equipment for laboratories, fume hoods and biological safety cabinets (BSCs) protect personnel from exposure to chemicals and pathogens handled during experiments.

Managing groups of biological safety cabinets (BSCs) in a biomedical research, healthcare or academic facility requires three strategies to optimize the total cost of ownership.