BIOQUELL Introduce a New Service for Category III Laboratory Cleanroom Decontamination
07 June 2007
Recognising that healthcare and pharmaceutical BSL2 and BSL3 laboratories have different needs, BIOQUELL have launched an entirely new service option for the decontamination of controlled areas.
This new service offers:
- Guaranteed 24 hour call out in response to HSE reportable spillages.
- Annual site inspection.
- Provision of risk assessment and method statement.
- Fully challenged decontamination cycle*.
- Detailed report and decontamination certificate.
- Entire laboratory decontamination in under two hours.
- Independently verified technology.
- An alternative fumigation method to formaldehyde.
- Preferential member rates for further decontamination deployments.
Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour (HPV) has been used for the decontamination of laboratories and buildings within the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector for many years; however it has not been regularly used for BSL2/3 fumigation due to the cost of purchasing equipment and also the need for efficacy data concerning Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB).
BIOQUELL's decontamination technology now has proven efficacy against TB along with many other micro-organisms. BIOQUELL's Room Bio-Decontamination Service (RBDS) has been independently verified by the HPA (formally CAMR) as a successful disinfectant system for cleanrooms, aseptic processing areas and hospital wards, offering a viable, proven and recommended alternative to formaldehyde fumigation.
The fumigation of a laboratory can be a lengthy and drawn out procedure, closing the laboratory for several days. Formaldehyde has always been the traditional fumigation method for laboratory decontamination, yet with long lead times, persistent residues and the need for post fumigation cleaning, it has never been considered an optimal solution. Classed as a Schedule 1 chemical under COSSH there is now a responsibility to prevent exposure to formaldehyde as far as is reasonably practical.
Similarly, concerns over the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde and introduction of strict regulations governing chemical emissions have prompted France to ban the sale and use of formaldehyde as of 1st January 2007. It is anticipated that this trend will continue and that the introduction of the Biocidal Products Directive (BPD) combined with the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) will force other countries to follow suit.
Room Bio-Decontamination Service ('RBDS') offers the benefits of hydrogen peroxide vapour technology without the capital outlay of equipment purchase. In operation for over four years, RBDS has a wealth of experience in room, building and laboratory decontamination completing over 10,000 decontaminations worldwide.
*Cycle verified by using G. stearothermophilus biological indicators.
