Esco has announced that its range of microbiological safety cabinets has been certified by the biosafety unit of the Health Protection Agency Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response.
Esco models AC2-3E1, AC2-4E1, AC2-4L1, AC2-6E1, LA2-3A1, LA2-4A1, LA2-4L1, LA2-6A1, LP2-4D1, LP2-4S1, LP2-6S1, CYT-4A1, SC2-4A1 have been certified to the current European Standard EN 12469:2000 and been found to meet the required performance criteria.
The Health Protection Agency is a national organisation dedicated to protecting people's health and reducing the impact of infectious diseases, chemicals, poisons and radiation hazards.
It has been at the forefront of containment technology for more than 50 years with laboratories handling the full range of pathogenic agents safely at containment levels two, three, and four.
This history of specialist work, handling hazardous of biological agents, has ensured the Health Protection Agency's close involvement in the development of containment technologies, including biological safety cabinets.
The agency is the only UK organisation and one of four in Europe that currently can undertake full performance certification of cabinets to EN12469:2000.
The agency and its forerunners at Porton Down have been independently certifying safety cabinets to the British Standard since 1979 and to the European Standard since it was adopted in 2000.
