Title:

One Piece Positive Pressure Ventilated Suits

Creator:

United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
National Cancer Institute (U.S.). Office of Research Safety
National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Special Committee of Safety and Health Experts

Date:

[July 1978]

Description:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules, released by NIH Director Donald S. Fredrickson in 1976, laid out four levels of physical containment of microorganisms used in recombinant DNA, or gene splicing, experiments. These levels ranged from P1, laboratories with standard equipment and no special containment technology, to P4, laboratories specially designed for experiments with potentially harmful or epidemic pathogens. Researchers in a P4 laboratory, shown above, were required to wear protective equipment, such as these full-body suits with built-in air supply.

Publisher:

National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Photographic prints
Excerpts
Monographs

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Secondary Barriers in Representative P4 Facility, 1978

Legacy Source Citation:

Monograph. United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Cancer Institute. Office of Research Safety, and Special Committee of Safety and Health Experts. "One Piece Positive Pressure Ventilated Suits." National Institutes of Health Laboratory Safety Monograph: A Supplement to the NIH Guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research. National Institutes of Health (U.S.), [July 1978]. P. 72. Excerpt. Monograph. Photographic Print. 1 Image.

Legacy ID:

FFBBMC

NLM ID:

101584939X189

Profiles Collection:

The Donald S. Fredrickson Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584939X189

Story Section:

The Controversy over the Regulation of Recombinant DNA Research, 1975-1981