Bio-Safety Cabinet Testing

Biological Safety Cabinets provide both product and personnel protection when properly maintained and operated. One of the most important factors contributing to a properly maintained cabinet is an annual certification procedure. Cabinet certification is a series of performance tests on the biological safety cabinet to confirm that it will provide the user and experiment the protection for which it was intended. To ensure proper function each cabinet must be certified when initially installed or moved and annually thereafter. The recognized standard for testing and certifying Biological Safety Cabinets is the National Sanitation Foundation's Standard 49 (NSF-49), if the cabinet is listed or the cabinet manufactures requirements if it is not.

The requirements of the certification test that are provided by AccuTec are:

Principal Testing

• Velocity Profile (Inflow and Down flow)
• HEPA Filter Integrity Test
• Air Flow Smoke Pattern Test
• Cabinet Leak Test

Elective Testing

• Electrical Ground Leakage Test
• Circuit Resistance
• Sound Level Test
• Light Level Test
• Ultraviolet Light Level Test

AccuTec Services, Inc. is a qualified service provider for Labconco Biosafety Cabinets.