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Nature 390, 550 (11 December 1997) | doi:10.1038/37466

Standards for safety cabinets

Raymond P. Clark1

  1. Cranfield Biomedical Centre, Institute of BioScience and Technology, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford shire MK43 0AL, UK e-mail: Email: ray@medi.demon.co.uk

In the past few years, protection from potential airborne hazards associated with handling microbiological agents in the laboratory has owed much to the improvement in containment performance of microbiological safety cabinet installations after the smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom in 1978.A new European safety cabinet standard is now being proposed to cover the whole field of biotechnology.