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Some of the biosafety cabinets are equipped with UV lights. You may want to turn them on or to ask to install UV lights on your cabinet.
**Please note that we do not recommend the usage of UV lights in biosafety cabinet.**
The efficiency of UV lights in Biosafety cabinet is very limited. Everything in the shadow of a tips box, pipette holder,... will not receive any photon from the UV. The surfaces below the worktop of the biosafety cabinet are also in the shadow.
The efficiency of UV lights in Biosafety cabinet is very limited. Everything in the shadow of a tips box, pipette holder,... will not receive any photon from the UV.
The surfaces below the worktop of the biosafety cabinet are also in the shadow.
Among the additional reasons why we do not recommend UV lights:
UV lights efficiency decreases with the square of the distance, making it inefficient where it would be the more interesting to have it.
UV lights efficiency decreases with the age of the light bulbs.
UV lights affect plastics lifetime and may damage items left in the Biosafety cabinet
Dust and dirt protect "bugs" from UV light.
=> UV lights can not replace cleaning and disinfection.
- UV lights efficiency decreases with the square of the distance, making it inefficient where it would be the more interesting to have it.
- UV lights efficiency decreases with the age of the light bulbs.
- UV lights affect plastics lifetime and may damage items left in the Biosafety cabinet
- Dust and dirt protect "bugs" from UV light.
**=> UV lights can not replace cleaning and disinfection.**
Would you experience contamination issue or have doubts about good practices in your laboratory setup, create a ticket to get in touch with our biosafety officer that can help you to review your procedures and look at the laboratory setup.
