Inside the airflow, HEPA filtration, pressure relationships and failure testing that help keep high-containment laboratories contained Walk into a properly operating Containment Level 3 (CL3) laboratory and, at first glance, things may seem surprisingly calm. The lights are on. Equipment is humming. Researchers are working. Doors open and close. Air enters through supply diffusers and disappears through exhaust grilles. Nothing particularly dramatic appears to be happening. A

A HEPA filter guy’s perspective on the little machine sitting in your living room I’ve spent a large part of my career working in some of the cleanest and most controlled environments you can imagine. Hospitals. Pharmaceutical facilities. Research laboratories. Biological safety cabinets. Cleanrooms where airborne particle concentrations are measured, airflow is carefully controlled, pressure relationships matter, and HEPA filters are tested to verify that they are actually p

If the only time you open your certification report is when an auditor asks for it...you're leaving one of your facility's best management tools sitting in a digital filing cabinet. Let's be honest. For many pharmacies, laboratories, hospitals, and cleanroom facilities, certification reports have a pretty predictable life cycle. The technician performs the certification. The report arrives by email. Someone saves it to a folder. Everyone forgets it exists... ...until an audit