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From strobicair.com
Re-entrainment of laboratory workstation fume hood exhaust has received widespread attention in the past few years. The main reason for this concerns growing public awareness of pollution issues, mostly as a result of broad news coverage of multi-million dollar lawsuits focused on indoor air quality (IAQ). These lawsuits resulted from worker claims that dangerous research laboratory workstation fume hood or process exhaust either remained in the work area, or that roof exhaust gases were being re-entrained into the work area from building windows, doors, ventilation system intakes, and other sources. In addition to recent litigation against a few FORTUNE 500 industrial organizations, and even a nationally known American university hospital with regard to IAQ and employee health problems, articles published in the general press have cited laboratory researchers who died as a result of contracting glioma, a form of brain cancer, allegedly as a result of work place conditions associated with laboratory workstation exhaust. Products & Services
Laboratory air handling equipment is used to protect specimens and laboratory staff from environmental contamination. Products include fume hoods, biological safety cabinets, environmentally controlled rooms and clean benches.
Biological safety cabinets protect both the specimen and the user from biological contamination.
Laboratory fume hoods are partially enclosed workspaces that are exhausted to the outside.
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Managing Biosafety Laboratory Workstation Exhaust (.pdf)
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