White Paper

Tips for Purchasing a Biosafety Cabinet

The white paper is a guide for principal investigators when purchasing a biosafety cabinet.

Video

Tailor Made Biosafety Cabinets for Automation

Gain insight into the custom biosafety cabinet process, and collaborate with engineers to design tailor-made solutions for specific lab workflows, ensuring the safe containment of automated equipment while optimizing performance.

White Paper

USP 800 Gap Analysis

USP 800 is going to financially impact your pharmacy’s future business model so this white paper focuses on five important details that define the "why" for considering a capital investment.

Infographic

USP 797 and USP 800 PEC Requirements

Follow this flowchart for an easy method to identify what Primary Engineering Control (PEC) or Containment Primary Engineering Control (C-PEC) your pharmacy needs.

General Technical Bulletin

Use of the Anesthetic Gas Isoflurane with a Biosafety Cabinet

The use of anethetic gas, Isoflurane is common in vivariums todya. There are several manufactueres of anesthetic gas systems to both deliver and scavegne the gas for routine surgical procedures. However, if the surgical procedure requires a sterile or contained environment, the procedure will most likley be performanced within a biosafety cabinet (BSC). The use of a BSC for surgical procedures offers HEPA filtered air (99.99% efficient @ 0.3 microns) for sterility. The BSC also offers containment from particulate hazards (bacteria, viruses) and may also offer containment from the anesthic gas itself, depending upon the BSC type and configuration. If gas containment is to be achieved, the BSC must be exhausted either through a hard or canopy connection.

General Technical Bulletin

Noise Considerations in Laboratories

This document is a general guide regarding noise and airflow products in laboratories.

White Paper

Preparing for Cleanroom Inspections

Learn how your pharmacy can prepare for cleanroom inspections by incorporating mock audits intro survey preparation strategies.

White Paper

Primary Engineering Control Placement in the Cleanroom

This white paper explores PEC selection and placement strategies to meet USP <797> and <800> guidelines in cleanrooms handling sterile and hazardous drug compounding.

Ebook

Safety in the Laboratory: Avoiding Injury, Infection, and Contamination

Read this ebook to learn the Importance of establishing who is responsible for enforcement of lab safety rules, guidelines to keep in mind when conducting a risk assessment, and more.

General Technical Bulletin

NSF History Report on Volatile Containment Air Concentrations in Type B Biosafety Cabinets

The field certification of Biological Safety Cabinets (BSC’s) as required in Annex F of the NSF/ANSI 49 class II biosafety cabinetry standard is based on the principle of replication. To assure the BSC is operating within it’s design and biological containment performance tested range, the field certifier is required to use the same test instruments and procedures as both NSF and the manufacturer have used during the biological containment testing (type testing) at NSF. This replication of both the test instruments and procedure assures the BSC user the level of containment performance established by the standard since it’s inception in 1976. However with the emphasis on replication and the use of specific test instruments and procedures, the airflow measurement results for the certification of BSC’s can be suspect for other uses. The selection of test instruments and procedures for the airflow measurement of BSC’s has always had many challenges. This is especially true of class II, type B1/B2 BSC’s that are direct connected to an exhaust system. The inflow measurement methods for these cabinets have in history been performed using many different methods.

Ebook

Safe and Effective Research in the Vivarium

Learn safe and practical approaches to working in a rodent animal lab fa¬cility and challenges regarding the health and safety of animal care staff, researchers, and animals they work with.

White Paper

Custom Biosafety Cabinets for Robotics and Automation – Sanofi Case Study

This short case study details how NuAire engineers worked directly with a French pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, to fabricate a fully customized Biosafety Cabinet to house their automated liquid handlers.