Esco has announced that its Cytoculture cytotoxic safety cabinet has been EN12469-certified by the Health Protection Agency.
The safety cabinets provide a safe and clean environment for the compounding of hazardous, sterile drug preparations including antineoplastics and cytotoxics.
A key concern for these applications is the ability to safely change and dispose of contaminated filters at regular intervals.
This is typically impossible with conventional biological safety cabinets.
Cytoculture enables safe filter disposal using a dual exhaust filter system, which also improves operator protection by a factor of >100,000X.
The HEPA filter mounted below the work surface can be safely sealed with protective cabinet airflow operating.
In addition, this design eliminates contaminated areas in the critical air return path, which is not accessible for surface decontamination on conventional biological safety cabinets.
