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Benefits and Uses of Biosafety Cabinets
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Today, safety measures and compliances form an integral part of laboratory management. Agreeing with this line of thought, lab owners consider Biological Safety Cabinet as an important piece of safety equipment. A biosafety cabinet is helpful in spaces where manipulations of infectious microorganisms are performed. A Biological safety cabinet is the primary means of containment developed for employees working carefully with infectious microorganisms. These cabinets provide both a clean work environment and protection for employees working with biological hazards. 

Essentially, biosafety cabinets make use of airflow to create a barrier to airborne particles. These airborne contaminants such as microorganisms are contained, thus protecting both the working personnel and the product under experiment.

Biosafety cabinets make use of the HEPA filtered air for the recirculation over the work area. The HEPA filter works to remove airborne particles from the air however, it does not remove chemical fumes; therefore, fume hoods may be an additional essential safety gadgets besides biosafety cabinets for a protective work environment. 

The use of biosafety cabinets is recommended for the manipulations of pathogens that can produce aerosols and for all airborne transmitted pathogens. 

Ventilated Cabinet is a must as microbiological labs deal with harmful and infectious agents. The biosafety cabinet helps facilities dealing with hazardous pathogens to take extreme precautions to prevent infection of microbiologists and lab technicians. Besides these cabinets, sufficient precautions are also necessary to limit the contamination of the work environment and the community at large.

 

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