‘Safety enclosures for automated laboratory processes: that is the trend’
The major trend in laboratory safety in pharma and life sciences over the coming years is the contamination-free operation of large laboratory instruments and analysers inside dedicated biological safety cabinets. According to managing director Diko Strietman of The Baker Company, these ‘safety enclosures’ are increasingly being applied for pipetting robots, flow cytometers and other robotics and automated processes, among others. “A large instrument generally does not fit inside an ordinary biological safety cabinet. That is why we develop more spacious, specially designed solutions to safeguard exposure risks.”
