These equipment have specific functions within the field of laboratories, for different applications, it is important to keep in mind that you need in terms of your sample requirements, in order to select the correct hoods; In KALSTEIN we not only offer you the best hoods of quality and advanced technology, but we advise you regarding your requirements to be able to choose which one to buy, you just have to enter in HERE we are a company manufacturer of high-level laboratory equipment buy-sale.
There may be some confusion as to the use of each, however, the laminar flow hoods offers us a clean work area where only protects the sample to prepare samples, applications other than with contaminating microorganisms, and the biological safety cabin, is a special equipment that allows not only to protect the sample, but the user and the environment, since its application is above all to manipulate microorganisms that can be contaminants.
hoods or laminar flow cabin
This equipment offers us to work pollution-free environments, as we provide decontaminated air from particles up to 0.1 microns. Which means the work area will always be clean and sterile; giving us an environment that is indispensable in laboratories of any kind and pharmaceutical industries, where we usually work with cell cultures, biological material, corrosive chemicals or infectious organisms.
Because all the hoods are designed in stainless steel it is advisable to use this machinery in all cases, because sometimes you work with corrosive and harmful substances for the human body or, sometimes, it is simply necessary to sterilize the environment to study effects of any kind, it should be noted that the laminar flow hoods only removes particles that pollute the air.
When we must use a laminar flow hoods
- Prepare bacterial culture media.
- Fill sterile products and antibiotics.
- Mix food.
- Non-pathogenic seeding.
- Prepare mixtures of intravenous solutions.
- Mixtures of baby formulas.
- To prepare ophthalmic solutions.
- And when we need to maintain an air free of contamination, laminar flow hoods offer a high-efficiency HEPA filter, capable of not letting particles larger than 0.3 micrometers pass through, and classified metrologically up to a minimum efficiency of 99.97% and can be reached up to a minimum efficiency of 99.999%, in a special HEPA filter.
Biological safety hoods or biological safety cabinets
Unlike laminar flow hoods, biological safety cabinets not only protect the work area, but are not equipment designed to safely and stably contain the output of bio-aerosols from the work area, protecting users and the environment from potential pollutants.
These equipment guarantee the existence of controlled environments, indispensable to carry out activities that by their characteristics are potentially dangerous for human health and the environment, so their use ranges from routine processes for the identification of microorganisms to specialized research activities.
When we must use a biological safety hoods
- To handle infectious material and other hazardous biological materials.
- If we manipulate biological agents.
- For samples of biological agents which may cause human diseases and which may constitute a hazard to workers.
- In the handling of toxic chemical compounds and/or carcinogens.
- If we use biological agents that can cause serious human diseases and pose a serious danger to workers, there may be a risk of them spreading in the community.
Types of laminar flow hoods and biological safety hoods
In Kalstein we can offer you two models of laminar flow hoods that according to their characteristics will cover certain applications and functions in your laboratory are horizontal and vertical and models of biological safety hoods are divided into type I, II, III, depending on whether you want to protect the sample, the sample and the user, or the wider ones that protect the sample, the user and the environment; Whatever your requirement in KALSTEIN you will find it in the following link HERE